Khaleda upset over party reform pace

The chaos over BNP's ongoing reorganisation process got on its chairperson's nerves, as the party has not yet been able to hold councils across the country, said insiders.
A report on the party's reorganisation process submitted to the chairperson last week showed that the party even could not complete formation of convening committees for upazila units by now.
Formation of the convening committees from district to ward levels of union parishad is very crucial as these committees were supposed to organise councils to form full-fledged committees by November 25.
Party's central office sources said the party has about 1,23,545 organisational units. They include 70,000 villages, 45,000 wards, 4,500 union, 361 municipalities, 70 thanas, 381 upazilas and 75 organisational districts including six city units.
But the report says the convening committees were formed only in about 1000 unions, 250 municipalities, 300 upazilas and 72 districts. The process of forming convening committees in ward level could not start as these units failed to complete membership recruitment drive.
Asked about the present situation party standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman acknowledged that the content of the report was correct.
He, however, said the party would make all-out efforts to complete the reorganisation process, as the chairperson is very much serious about holding the councils timely.
Party insiders said Chairperson Khaleda Zia had recently asked the leaders to submit the latest picture of the ongoing reorganisation process across the country. The central office accordingly collected reports from all districts over phone.
They said the report mainly held the internecine conflicts at all levels responsible for the slow pace of committee formation process.
Meanwhile, party's joint secretaries general have been assigned to resolve the disputes among district level leaders.
Abdullah Al Noman, a joint secretary general of the party, yesterday held a series of meetings with the leaders of Patuakhali, Mymensingh, Kishoreganj and Netrakona to resolve the conflicts.