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BNP ranks want Tarique's lead role in agitation

Some leaders urge Khaleda to bring him back from abroad

Rakib Hasnet Suman
Some BNP policymakers have urged party Chairperson Khaleda Zia to bring back its Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman from abroad to lead the party in its antigovernment movement.
For the first time in the last four years, the issue was raised
at a meeting of the BNP standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the main opposition party, on Sunday at the chairperson's Gulshan office in the capital.
Khaleda, who chaired the meeting, did not make any comment in this regard, meeting sources told this
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Tarique left the country for UK on September 11, 2008, and has been living in London for "treatment" since then.
At Sunday's meeting, standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan proposed that Tarique Rahman should be brought back to lead the party to make its movement a success. And it was supported by two other members — Mirza Abbas and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy.
“We should not keep mum. We have to say that Tarique Rahman should be brought back to lead the party. We will achieve victory under his leadership,” the sources quoted Nazrul as saying at the meeting.
Abbas and Goyeshwar echoed him, saying they (BNP) will Obe able to foil all conspiracies under the
leadership of Tarique Rahman, and their movement will be successful under his guidance.
Eleven other members of the committee present at the meeting, however, did not say anything on the proposal.
Tarique, eldest son of Khaleda, was highly criticised for "corruption and other allegations” by different quarters including his political opponents. He had conducted his activities from Hawa Bhaban, which was known as an “alternative centre of power”during the BNP rule.
Tarique was arrested on March 7, 2007 on charges of corruption during the military-backed caretaker government. He went to London after he was released on bail on Septembers, 2008.
On December 8, 2009, he was elected senior vice
chairman of the BNP at the fifth national council of the party on December 8, 2009. On the same day, the post was included in the party constitution.
Tarique was not present at the council.
On July 30, (last month) leaders and workers of pro-BNP student body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at a meeting with the party chairperson demanded Tarique's leadership.
But Khaleda categorically said, "Tarique is sick and under treatment. He is not involved in active politics.”
Many people, however, believe Tarique still has an important role in the party.
The chairperson and other leaders of the party repeatedly alleged that Tarique was tortured in custody during the caretaker government's tenure.