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BNP's Factional Feud

Saifur, Mannan add new twist

Rakib Hasnet Suman
A group of former BNP lawmakers, who are known as Saifur loyalists, yesterday in a meeting blasted their Acting Chairperson Saifur Rahman for his recent remark that his leadership has become ineffective.
The former lawmakers also assigned five leaders of the so-called reformist faction of the party for expediting the process of reunification with their rival proKhaleda faction led by the detained chairperson appointed Secretary General Khandaker Del war Hossain, according to meeting sources.
The sources said at least thirty
two former lawmakers loyal to pro-Saifur faction of BNP held the meeting in a Gulshan house in the capital to discuss the next course of action of the group.
When asked about the meeting. Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman told The Daily Star last night. "We. at least 30 former lawmakers of the party, discussed the party's reunification process, the upcoming election, and the proposed dialogue with the government.’’
Replying to a question he said. 'The recent remarks of Saifur Rahman, and the issue of Mannan Bhuiyan also came up in the discussion." ueiwar-iea Knaieaa loyalists or me party are not ready to re-unite with rival Saifur loyalists as long as Mannan Bhuiyan remains among the ranks of the latter, since party Chairperson Khaleda Zia expelled him from the organisation just before her arrest on charges of graft, the sources said.
Mannan however is ready to concede his position as a leader and remain a general member of the parly, for the sake of reunification if his rivals would let him, the sources added.
The leaders present at the meeting included the party's Standing Committee Member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, the faction's Acting Secretary General Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed, the party's Vice-presidents Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yousuf and M Osman Farruq, and former lawmaker Abdul /\lim.
Mahbubur said all leaders present at yesterday's meeting emphasised the need for the party's rc-unification. but they did take a hard stance of not accepting any offer of surrendering to the , rival fa^yop. as wjnt lo make 1 thepartyaemocranc’.
The sources said the former lawmakers also discussed the latest development in the re-unification process, and their strategy for the upcoming formal dialogues between the government and political parties.
Most of the attending former lawmakers strongly criticised Saifur Rahman for his recent remark that the leaders of his faction, who claim to be reformists, can only split the party but unable to rebuild it, the sources added.
Saifur had also said his leadership became ineffective as most of the participants in the October 29, 2007 meeting of BNP leaders, where the faction had been formed, recently withdrew their support for him by stating in an affidavit to a court that the meeting was not of the party's standing committee.
Most of the participants at yesterday's meeting however expressed their support for Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan.