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Head lines No room in Zia’s politics to show disrespect to Bangabandhu STAFF REPORTER, The Independent BNP lawmaker and president of "Amra Zia Habo" Mahi B Chowdhury yesterday brushed aside speculations that he might face stern disciplinary action, even expulsion, from the party after Prime Minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s return from Saudi Arabia tomorrow. Mahi Chowdhury, son of former president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, said what his father had propounded was not a new political formula, but "he just initiated a discussion" through expressing his political views to the press. The BNP MP said the existing situation did not warrant action against him. He did not think the situation was such that "Mahi B Chowdhury MP would be expelled from BNP for what Prof B Chowdhury had said." He was replying to questions from reporters at a press conference prior to an Iftar party hosted by "Amra Zia Habo"-an associate organisation of BNP- at Hotel Purbani. Mahi Chowdhury’s press conference yesterday and the Iftar party to be hosted by Prof Badruddoza Chowdhury today at Hotel Sheraton Winter Garden have generated keen interest in political circle about their future steps. BNP’s top leaders ignored Mahi Chowdhury’s invitation to attend the Iftar. Speaking at the press conference amid tight security Mahi B Chowdhury MP said he would go ahead with the politics of Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman and work for spreading the late president’s ideals. Unveiling the future plans of his organisation, the young BNP lawmaker said he would establish a political training institute named "School of Democracy and Nationalism" (SDN) with the aim of building politicians imbued with the ideals of Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman. Mahi said he hoped to impart political training to 50,000 people in the ideals of Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman’s politics throughout the country in the next two years. Asked whether he apprehended any obstacle from BNP in materialising his plan, Mahi answered in the negative and said that BNP chairperson and Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was the chief patron of his organisation. The BNP MP doubted whether all BNP leaders and workers believed in and understood the ideals of Zia. He said one cannot become a follower of Zia’s ideals merely by joining BNP. Mahi B Chowdhruy said Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman was a politician with a difference who united a divided nation with his ideal of Bangladeshi nationalism. He said Zia announced the independence of the country and bravely fought for its liberation. Mahi said Zia freed the nation from one party rule and established press freedom. The BNP lawmaker said there was tremendous crisis of honest and patriotic leadership in the country. He said the mentality of showing disrespect to senior politicians of other political parties only because of difference of political opinion should be changed. Replying to another question he said there was no denying the fact that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the undisputed leader who prepared the political background for the liberation war. Replying to another question Mahi Chowdhruy said he joined BNP politics because he did not like the politics of Bangabandhu but he did not have any disrespect for him. He said there was no room in Zia’s politics to show disrespect to Bangabandhu. He said there was no conflict between Bangalee nationalism and Bangladeshi nationalism but there was difference between the two. Mahi B Chowdhury denied the suggestion that his father lobbied for his nomination from BNP to contest the parliamentary seat vacated by him when he became president of the country. He said he joined BNP inspired by Tarek Rahman and added that he became actively involved in BNP politics after his father resigned from BNP. Md Wajed Ali Chowdhury, general secretary of "Amra Zia Habo", said they had invited BNP leaders Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Tariqul Islam, Barrister Nazmul Huda, Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Col (retd) Oli Ahmed, Khurshid Jahan Haque, Tarek Rahman, Begum Selima Rahman, Haris Chowdhury; educationists Prof Emajuddin Ahmed and Prof Moniruzzaman Miah and journalist Reazuddin Ahmed to attend the Iftar party. But none of them turned up. STAFF REPORTER, The Independent The leaders of the Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council yesterday demanded immediate resignation of the alliance government for its failure to ensure security to the people. They demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the culprits involved in the tragic incident of Banskhali. Dhaka City unit of the council organised a demonstration at the Bahadur Shah Park in old Dhaka protesting the medieval barbarism that killed 11 members of a family including a four-day-old child, by torching their house at Banskhali upazila in Chittagong on last Tuesday night. A presidium member of the Dhaka City unit, Haripada Datta presided over the discussion. While central leaders of the council, Bhadanto Bhodhipal Mohathero, Advocate Subrata Chowdhury, Anil Chandra Nath, Advocate Shushantu Basu, Parimal Dey, Babul Das and Advocate Kishore Ranjan Mondal spoke. The Home Minister had failed completely to ensure security to the minority of the country and he had no right to hold the office anymore, the leaders said adding that the four-party alliance government ought to resign at once confessing its failure to ensure law and order. Communal forces started persecuting the minority soon after the national election in 2001, the leaders said and added that the Home Minister’s continuous failure to protect the minority community encouraged the vested quarters to try to wipe out the minorities from the country. They warned the government that if oppression on the minority communities continued across the country, they would protect them unitedly. |
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