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Party Registration

BNP to stand by Jamaat

Staff Correspondent
The BNP will not frustrate its ally Jamaat-e-Islami by distancing itself from the latters' fight to remain a registered political party.
BNP senior leaders have been criticising the recent High Court verdict that declared Jamaat's registration with the Election Commission illegal. They say the government is planning to weaken the BNP-led 18 party alliance by separating Jamaat from it.
The main opposition will not let the government have a walkover this time by remaining silent as it did on the issue of Jamaat's protest against the war crimes trial.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, a number of senior BNP leaders said the way the party was voicing concern over the verdict, it seemed it might extend moral support to Jamaat's 48-hour hartal to be enforced from August 12 protesting the ruling.
"On return of Chairperson Khaleda Zia
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from Saudi Arabia, we will announce our decision in this regard," said a senior party leader.
The BNP chief is scheduled to return home on August 7 after performing Umrahhajj.
When the demand for banning of Jamaat became stronger from different social strata for its anti-liberation role, the BNP made clear its position by saying it opposed such an action against any political party.
BNP supporting Jamaat in the fight against its deregistration with the EC means all other components of the opposition alliance will stand beside Jamaat.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that accordingto the main opposition the registration of a
party should not be cancelled in the light of a court judgment.
"The existence of a political party that abides by the country's constitutional provisions entirely depends on the people's will," he said.
Moudud Ahmed, a member of the BNP national standing committee, said his party’s ties with the Jamaat would remain intact despite the H C verdict.
"We are still united and will remain united in future," he said at a programme at the Jatiya Press Club.
There is no bar to Jamaat's participation in the next general elections due to the verdict, he said, adding the HC ruling would also not have an impact on the BNP orthe opposition alliance.
Contacted, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, another
national standing committee member, said BNP, if needed, would wage agitation along with Jamaat against the government's "conspiracy" to separate Jamaat from the opposition alliance.
"The party-high command will sit soon to decide how it will assist Jamaat in retaining the registration [with the EC]," he said.
The court does not have any jurisdiction to cancel the registration of a party. It is the EC that will decide it, Goyeshwar added.
The opposition alliance will intensify its street agitation after Eid to force the government to give in to its demand for a non-partisan election-time government, senior BNP leaders said.
"Dreadful" programmes will be announced after Eid, Moudud said.