Who runs BNP?
A Bengali daily carried a comment that there was a call from somewhere and Khaleda Zia's spokesperson had rushed out and locked the gate of the BNP Gulshan office so that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not enter the premises to express her condolences to Khaleda Zia on the death of Arafat Rahman Koko. All this had happened while the senior leaders of BNP, who are mostly in their mid seventies, were sitting in Khaleda Zia's office. Later on, different statements were made and regrets expressed giving reasons why the Prime Minister was denied entrance.
Is it true that all this has happened because of a call from somewhere? If so, then who is running the show in BNP? Has BNP gone into the hands of younger generation and are they taking over from the senior members of the party? We all know that Tarique Rahman, senior vice president of BNP now living on asylum in London, made calls to enforce blockade and strikes in Bangladesh which is now in its fourth week.
I wonder whether BNP is going the same way as the MQM in Pakistan which carries out its activities under the direction of its party head Altaf Hossain, sitting in London for more than last two decades.
Ziauddin Ahmed
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