Govt forced Zahidur to take oath: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the government has mounted a pressure on party leader Zahidur Rahman to take oath as a member of the 11th parliament.

Fakhrul came up with the allegation a day after Zahidur, elected from Thakurgaon-3 constituency in December 30 national elections, took oath as MP yesterday against the party’s decision of not joining parliament.

“We are sure of that there was a government pressure behind Zahidur Rahman’s oath taking but we don’t care about this,” Fakhrul said after placing wreath at the grave of late party founder Ziaur Rahman in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka this noon.

“It is undoubtedly a government pressure but we are not worried of it at all,” Fakhrul said.

Claiming Zahidur’s oath-taking as a blatant violation of the party’s organisational decision, Fakhrul said, his party will go for a tough action against the violators.

Fakhrul along with a number of leaders and activists of BNP’s woman front Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, went to the grave on the occasion of forming of its full-pledged committee.