PrBNP professional leader Zafrullah Chowdhury has compared the National Standing Committee members of the party with ‘newly-wed brides’.
“The BNP has a Standing Committee with about 19 members. Five of them are either dead or ailing. That leaves us 14. In these times of trouble, they do not even have one meeting a week with their chairperson,” he said at a discussion on Wednesday.
He mentioned that there was a recent meeting at which, according to reports that reached his ears, the members sat around like ‘newly-wed brides with their heads covered, facing their mother-in-law’.
“Unless this situation changes, our struggle for freedom is utopia,” he added.
Even after the National Council, the BNP has not formed a new Standing Committee. Recently, Chairperson Khaleda Zia had a meeting with the prevailing committee members.
“Everybody knows we are living under a dictatorship,” said Zafrullah Chowdhury. “We are suffocating. What’s the way out? The people who have the answer are dormant princesses.”
Expressing his dissatisfaction with the BNP, he said, “The citizens are banking on the BNP. But it doesn’t look as though they will be able to wake up the sleeping princess to save the country.”
The founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (Peoples Health Centre) was speaking at the programme at Ramna’s Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh, auditorium on the occasion of the 117th birth anniversary of rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Speaking out against centralisation in the country, Chowdhury indicated that on such an occasion Khaleda Zia could have gone to Comilla to participate in a discussion on the poet.
“Tying itself down does not help the BNP,” he said, “The party will simply stay frustrated.”
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fahrul Islam Alamgir also spoke at the event.
Source: Bd news24
