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Poll Debacle

Losers blame local BNP leaders in Ctg

Staff Correspondent
Former BNP candidates of Chittagong division, who were defeated in the ninth parliamentary elections, blamed the party's local leaders for BNP's massive defeat.
They said non-cooperation of local leaders was oneofmajor reasonsbehind their defeat.
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Many local leaders- did not want to take any risks as they were planning to contest in the upazila elections, which were held after the parliamen-tarv elections, the defeated candidates said in their reports submitted to BNP high command.
The BNP Standing Committee last night received the reports placed by the team led by BNP Joint Secretary' General Goyeshwar Chandra Roy. The team was assigned to talk with upazila-level rank and file in Chittagong division and submit reports.
Sources said recommendations made by the party's field-level leaders came up for discussion at the standing committee meeting held at Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office. She chaired
the meeting.
The field-level leaders' suggestions include severing ties with Jamaat-e-Islami, excluding corrupt leaders from party committees, forming committees through elections and picking leaders with good image.
The team last night urged the standing committee to expel leaders known to be corrupt and has links with criminals.
The standing committee also discussed the Jamaat issue seriously but could not complete the discussion.
Party insiders said BNP asked ex-candidates of all constituencies of Chittagong division for their statements on why they lost but only 17 out of57 responded.
KHALEDA PROTESTS
ARREST
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday protested the arrest of party's Labour Affairs Secretary and Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal General Secretary Zafrul Hasan in a "false and politically-motivated case".
Demanding his immediate release, she alleged that ignoring the existing Jabpur 1^ proBNP labour leaders and workers were being "transferred and repressed" on a mass scale.
She urged the government to stop its party leaders and workers from attacking proBNP labour leaders and workers and filing false cases against them.