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BNP top brass under pressure to bring Tarique back

Rakib Hasnet Suman
Mid-level BNP leaders, known as close aides to tarique Rahman, are mounting pressure on the party leadership to bring him back but Khaleda Zia is still unwilling to take decision in this regard.
Party insiders said Khaleda, also leader of the opposition, may visit Saudi Arabia soon to perform Umrah as she has already received an invitation from the Saudi authorities.
They also hinted that the BNP chairperson might go to London and Bangkok to visit her sonsTarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman who are under treatment. •
Chairperson's Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, however, said she (Khaleda) has no plan to visit London and Bangkok. "But she may go to Saudi .Arabia to perform Umrah. She does this every year on invitation of the Saudi government,' he told The Daily Star, adding that possible date of her visit has not been fixed yet.
Meanwhile, a group of BNP leaders have already started lobbying for accompanying the party chairperson if she goes to London to visit Tarique Rahman as they think that it would be easier for them to persuade Tarique to make formal announcement for returning to politics.
In a statement before leaving the country on September 12 last year, Tarique said he retired from active politics with effect from September 11. He along with his wife and daughter are now stayingin London.
But BNP's joint secretary general Goyeshwer Chandra Roy on Tuesday said Tarique is still senior joint secretary general of the party and that he has been away from party activities due to illness. "Tarique did not retire from politics," he said categorically.
Party insiders said some senior and midlevel leaders are eager to meet Tarique to discuss his possible return to the country and the
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strategy to reorganise the party by leading from the front.
"Everybody wants an announcement about Tarique's return. Specially the leaders of young generation want to see him soon in party activities," a senior leader of the party said, adding that leaders of the party's front bodies have already placed their demand before the chairperson several times.
While talking to The Daily Star, a former deputy minister who was known as close aide to Tarique, said Tarique Rahman is a victim of national and international conspiracy but he must resume political activities as the leader of nationalist forces.
He said party council will be held at the end of this year and it might choose Tarique as future leader.
Against this backdrop, the party will observe 'Tarique Release Day’ on September 3 across the country in a bid to create opinion in favour of the elder son of party chairperson Khaleda Zia.