Rumeen withdraws application seeking allotment of plot
BNP lawmaker Rumeen Farhana yesterday withdrew her application seeking allotment of a 10 katha plot in Dhaka’s Purbachal.
Rumeen, BNP’s lone reserved seat lawmaker, wrote to the public works affairs minister saying she is withdrawing the application for a Purbachal plot -- showing full respect to the sentiments of grassroots leaders and activists of BNP and her well-wishers.
Earlier on August 3, she wrote that she would be “grateful” if the government allocated a plot for her as she didn’t have any land or flat in Dhaka.
Rumeen, assistant international affairs secretary of the BNP’s central executive committee, took oath as a lawmaker on June 9.
Right after joining the parliament, she termed the government “illegal”.
Her letter -- seeking a plot -- recently went viral on social media. BNP leaders and activists expressed anger over the application.
“My achievement is love and good wishes of the people. I cannot do anything that hurts their sentiments. So, I’m withdrawing my application,” she told The Daily Star yesterday.
When asked whether there was any pressure from the party, she said, “Not at all.”
The BNP-led Oikyafront, which boycotted the January 5, 2014 election, contested the last parliamentary election and won six seats. Five lawmakers-elect took oath while party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir refused to take oath.
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