They include 28 vying for chairman, 24 for vice-chairman and 21 for vice-chairman’s seats reserved for women
Fakhrul responds to Quader's 'discord' remark, says BNP is ‘completely united’
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has refuted Awami League leader Obaidul Quader’s claim that there is a discord between top leaders of the party - Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman.
Published : 23 Dec 2017, 04:14 PM
Updated : 23 Dec 2017, 04:51 PM
“There is no disagreement in our party. We are completely united,” Mirza Fakhrul told reporters after a meeting with the party’s leaders in his home district Thakurgaon on Saturday.
“Khaleda Zia is the party’s chairperson, and Tarique Rahman is the senior vice chairman. We always work together under their leadership,” he said.
The ruling party General Secretary Quader on Friday said the difference of opinion between Mirza Fakhrul and BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi over the Rangpur polls ‘revealed the dispute between Khaleda and Tarique’.
Mirza Fakhrul said all should accept the results of the ‘fairly peaceful’ Rangpur City Corporation election while Rizvi alleged rigging.
Speaking to the reporters on Saturday, Mirza Fakhrul also admitted that the BNP was ‘organisationally weak’ in Rangpur, a stronghold of the Jatiya Party, which won the mayoral election on Thursday.
He also criticised the government for ‘using enforced disappearance as a tool to curb freedom of speech’.
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