Saifur visits Sylhet after 21 months
BNP leader and former finance minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday paid a brief visit to Sylhet after about 21 months.
While talking to journalists at Hotel Garden Inn in the city, he criticised the government for not clearing its position on lifting the state of emergency before the parliamentary elections.
"We still do not know whether the national election will be held on schedule," Saifur said.
He also held a meeting with local party leaders and activists at the hotel.
"We have placed a four-point demand including the lifting of emergency before the caretaker government and we are ready to contest the polls once the demands are met," Saifur said.
"If my party participates in the polls, I might contest the elections either from Sylhet or Moulvibazar constituency," the former minister said replying to a query.
When asked about the party's internal feuds in Sylhet and elsewhere, he said necessary steps have already been taken to end intra-party squabbling.
He said his party might have to field new candidates in about 60 constituencies as many former BNP lawmakers had been jailed.
The former finance minister left Sylhet for the capital in the evening.
Saifur has long been in dispute with Sylhet district BNP convener and former lawmaker M Ilyas Ali.
Comments