Workers Party suspends six central leaders
Workers Party of Bangladesh yesterday suspended six of its central committee leaders who had sought to refrain from joining the upcoming 10th congress of the party -- scheduled to begin in Dhaka on November 2.
“The final decision about them would be taken by the new central committee, as per opinion of majority of the congress delegates,” said Fazle Hossain Badsha, convenor of the congress preparation committee.
He was speaking at a press conference held to disclose the party’s 10th congress preparations, at its office on the capital’s Topkhana Road.
The suspended leaders include the party politburo members Nurul Hasan and Iqbal Kabir Jahid, and central committee members Mofazzel Hossain Manju, Anil Biswas, Tusher Kanti Das and Zakir Hossain Hobi.
In a press release issued on Monday, the six leaders informed the party of not joining the 10th congress.
They alleged that the party has deviated from its communist ideals by forming alliance with the ruling Awami League.
“The party is going to hold a farcical congress and we, six central leaders of the party, took the decision to not join it,” they said in the statement.
On Saturday, party politburo member and former general secretary Bimal Biswas, who earlier left the party on moral grounds, was also expelled on charge of indulging in anti-party activities.
On October 22, Bimal himself withdrew his primary membership of the party on ideological grounds.
Bimal sent a letter to the party’s central committee, informing it of his resignation and said the party had deviated from its ideals of Marxism and Leninism.
Amidst these developments, Badsha, speaking at yesterday’s press conference, told journalists that all preparations have been taken to hold the 10th congress.
“Political proposals and organisational reports of the party were explained at the activists’ rally of different units, held last month,” he said.
Badsha said that a total of 60 councils were held at union, municipality, upazila and thana levels.
A total of 800 representatives from different units are expected to participate at the four-day long congress, scheduled to begin on November 2, said Badsha.
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