BNP vice-chairman Noman may quit from his post

BNP Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman may quit from his party post as he did not get any position in the standing committee.

“I don’t want to remain as BNP vice-chairman at this moment,” Noman, a veteran freedom fighter, told The Daily Star today.

“I will inform you (journalists) within a day or two when I am going to resign,” Noman said.

BNP on August 6 announced its full list of executive and standing committee members but without giving Noman any post.

According to the fresh list, BNP’s central executive committee has been constituted of 502 members and 35 vice chairmen and 73 advisers.

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Mirza Fakhrul, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Salahuddin Ahmed, who is now in India, got entry in the 19-member standing committee.

However, two posts --17 and 18 number positions in the BNP policymaking body -- will be announced later.

Besides, while talking to reporters at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam denied possibility of bringing any change in the party’s newly formed full-fledged committee.

“There might be dissatisfaction among BNP leaders over the full-fledged central executive committee, but we have no chance to reconsider this,” Fakhrul said.

He came up with the reaction hours after Noman hinted that he might resign from his post.

Fakhrul said there are many qualified leaders in a big political party like BNP but everyone cannot get desired space in the leadership.

The people who are deprived of post in the new committee will be given space in different sub-committees, otherwise they will have to wait for next council, he added.