BNP asks OSs to prepare organisational reports

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday asked its new organising secretaries to prepare reports on the latest organisational position underlining the role of grassroots leaders in the first-ever partisan elections to union parishads.
The instruction came from the maiden formal meeting of new joint secretaries, organising secretaries and assistant organising secretaries in its partial national executive committee, announced so far, at BNP central office at Nayapaltan in Dhaka.
Presided over by BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the meeting discussed ways to strengthen the organisation,
organisational activities during the month of Ramadan, urgency of accomplishing full-fledged national executive committee and union parishad polls, meeting sources said.
BNP so far named 40 office bearers and assistant office bearers of its national executive committee including secretary general, senior joint secretary general and joint secretaries general after its latest council session on March 19.
Khaleda Zia and her eldest son Tarique Rahman were re-elected unopposed as chairperson and senior vice-chairman respectively before the council.
A joint secretary general said that the meeting asked the organising secretaries to identify in their reports the party leaders who worked for or against the party candidates in the union parishad polls.
The organising secretaries and assistant organising secretaries would start district tours after Ramadan to prepare the reports, an organising secretary said.
The meeting discussed about holding iftar parties at district, upazila and union levels apart from centrally in the capital to organise the party leaders and activists across the country, the sources said.
After the meeting, Fakhrul told reporters that they held the meeting to discuss how to intensify the organisational activities.
He alleged that the ruling Awami League created an autocratic situation unleashing repression of the opposition and breaking pillars of democracy.
He said that there was no alternative to a fair and exclusive general election under a non-party neutral government to overcome the problem.
He said movement would be launched along with people if the government immediately did not take step to hold such elections.
He said that the meeting took vow to build up the organisation befittingly to successfully lead the movement for restoration of democracy.
In reply to a question, Fakhrul said that BNP was always prepared politically and organisationally for participating in election and the election must be held under a non-party neutral government.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretaries general Mojibor Rahman Sarwar, Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Harun-or-Rashid, organisaing secretaries Syed Emran Saleh Prince, Bilkis Jahan Shirin, assistant organising secretaries Shahidul Islam Babul, Selimuzzaman Selim and Joyonta Kumar Kundu, among others, attended the meeting.

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