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BNP found oblivious, AL report ready

Staff Correspondent
Leaders of BNP, main opposition in parliament have expressed ignorance about submission of the party's poll expenditure report to the Election Commission (EC) despite political parties' obligation to submit the report by tomorrow.
Even most senior BNP leaders are in the dark about the party's poll funds and their disbursement before the ninth parliamentary election, sources said.
Meanwhile, ruling Awami League (AL) has completed all preparations for submitting the party's poll expenditure report to the EC within the stipulated time.
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"If the Election Commission does not extend the deadline, we shall submit the report in time," AL Information and Research Secretary Nuh-ul-Alam Lenin told The Daily Star.
He, however, could not say anything about the party's poll funds and expenditures before the national election.
AL Treasurer HN Ashiqur Rahman last night said he knows nothing about the matter.
Party leaders said HT Imam, co-chairman of AL election conducting committee, had already prepared the report and placed it before the party presi-dent for final approval
BNP insiders said the party gave over a hundred candidates financial help from its funds for contesting the December 29 parliamentary elections.
The candidates received financial help ranging from Tk 50,000 to 5 lakh for meeting poll expenditure although some party leaders claimed that only a few candidates got highest Tk 1.5 lakh each, they said.
The others got Tk 40,000/50,000 from party funds, a senior BNP leader told The Daily Star.
Many BNP leaders said Nazrul Islam Khan, joint secretary general of the party, is working on the matter but Nazrul said he knows nothing about the issue.
"I do not know anything. Please talk to the party secretary general to know about the matter," he told The Daily Star on Saturday night
He said he is now busy with the party's by-polls campaign in Bogra.
A BNP leader, however, said, "Nazrul Islam Khan is the only person to know the matter as he handed over the cheques to party candidates."
BNP insiders said the money had been withdrawn from the party's bank account through cheques signed by the party chairperson, secretary general and a former lawmaker, who were given authority to sign the cheques in absence of the party treasurer
Shah Alam, treasurer of BNP central executive committee, has been inactive for years because of illness.