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Delwar slates CEC remarks on BNP issue

Staff Correspondent
Blasting the chief election commissioner (CEC) for his remarks about the BNP constitution and the expulsion of Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, pro-Khaleda faction of die party yesterday said the CEC broke the rules and lost neutrality by making biased comments.
Pro-Saifur leaders, meantime, said the top election official did not give any new information as he merely explained the BNP constitution.
CEC ATM Shamsul Huda said Friday that the expulsion of Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan was not lawful as the party constitution according to which he was ousted was not ratified by the party council.
This is beyond his (CEC's) jurisdiction and an unethical interference in a political party's internal affairs, acting Office Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi quoted
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Khaleda-appointed Secretary General Khandaker Dclwar Hossain assaying.
"The chief election commissioner is taking disgraceful steps one after another in a bid to present some expelled persons as party leaders and to divide the BNP" he quoted Dclwar as saying, adding that the CEC is hatching conspiracies to hold 'managed elections’ by recognising some expelled person as BN Pleader.
He said the participation of the BNP and other parties in the elections would be uncertain under the stewardship of present Election Commission should the CEC and the commission carry on with 'biased behaviour'.
Echoing the sentiment. BNP chairperson's adviser Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah said. "Why has he (CEC) sent letter to Mai (retd) Hafiz if he believes that expelling Mannan Bhuiyan was not lawful?"
Bnuiyan was BNP secretary general at the time of his expulsion in early September last year.
Joint Secretary General Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said the question of who is BNP secretary Seneral is pending in court, adding rat the CEC made the remarks on behalf of some quarters which is not acceptable.
"He should resign from his post in the interest of protecting the neutral image of the Election Commission," Gayeshwar said.
Meantime, Maj Gen (retd) ZA Khan, adviser to the BNP chairperson and a pro-Saifur leader, told The Daily Star that the CEC only explained the party constitution. "Fie did not give any new information."