One of the two 'rival committees' of Baralekha upazila BNP has sent recommendation to BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hussain to take punitive measures against former state minister advocate Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury.
Speakers in a meeting of Baralekha upazila BNP committee backed by former lawmaker Naser Rahman (son of former finance minister Saifur Rahman) on Thursday blamed the former state minister for his negative comments against BNP chief Khaleda Zia immediately after 1/11.
They requested Khandaker Delwar to give party nomination to expatriate BNP leader Darad Ahmed for Moulvibazar-1 (Baralekha and a part of Juri upazila) constituency instead of Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury.
Presided over by Muhibur Rahman Faruque, president of the committee backed by Naser Rahman, also Moulvibazar district BNP president, the meeting was attended, among others, by upazila BNP leaders Abdus Shahid Khan, Abu Nasar Masud, Hazi Abdul Mukit Lulu, Shamsul Haque, Aynul Haque and Darad Ahmed.
Earlier on September 24, Kulaura upazila BNP took similar decision against MM Shahin, a former lawmaker, and AH Mofazzal Karim, adviser to BNP chairperson.
Advocate Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury, former state minister and a former lawmaker from Baralekha, is backing another committee of Baralekha upazila BNP.
Ebadur Rahman-backed committee president Abdul Hafiz and general secretary Fazlul Haque told the reporters on Friday that Muhibur Rahman Faruque, Anwarul Islam and Abdus Shahid Khan, who introduced themselves as president, general secretary and organising secretary of upazila BNP, were expelled from the party and the expulsion order was sent to Baralekha BNP by central office secretary on April 20, 2006.
The expulsion order has not been withdrawn till now, they said.
They termed Thursday's meeting of Naser-backed committee of Baralekha BNP as part of conspiracy against BNP and four-party alliance.
Ebadur Rahman told the reporters that he met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka recently when the party chief instructed him to conduct party activities in Baralekha and make preparation for election.
Muhibur Rahman Faruque, president of Naser-backed committee, told this correspondent that his committee is legal, as Moulvibazar district committee constituted it.