JaSoD breakaway leader Moin Uddin Khan Badal has put a split in the organisation down to resentment caused by party leader Hasanul Haq Inu’s preoccupation with personal relations.
Haq has also questioned Inu’s financial integrity.
“Questions have been repeatedly raised within the party about his (Inu’s) attitude towards money matters after he became a minister. There is lack of transparency.
“The party president cannot take decisions on the basis of his personal likes and dislikes and personal relationships. But that is what he has done,” the MP from Chittagong said in his parliament office on Sunday.
“Our main complaint is, for six years, he has refused to let our general secretary Sharif Nurul Ambia work.”
The sudden split of the JaSoD has been caused by a rift over the choice of the new general secretary.
When MP and member of the party’s permanent council member, Shirin Akhter, was proposed for the post, the name of another MP – Najmul Haq Prodhan – was placed as a contender.
At one point in the tussle, a parallel JaSoD council was announced with Nurul Ambia as the president and Prodhan as the general secretary, while a new committee was formed, led by Inu and Shirin Akhter.
Badal, who has been made the executive president in the rebel committee, claimed four of the six party MPs were with them.
He also said 10 of the party’s 14-strong permanent council had joined, too.
Badal, former executive president of JaSoD led by Inu, said they had no intention to split the party. “We had not such plan.”
“This break-up is the result of the treatment meted out to the council and piling anger.”
He said the council had decided that the president, general secretary and executive presidents would have only one term, “but Inu stayed on for three terms”.
The party had also favoured a one-man-one-post principle, said Badal. “Anyone accepting an executive post was expected to give up his or her party post.”
“But the councillors had agreed to make an exception for Inu, allowing him to be the party president and a minister at the same time.”
The cause of the trouble lay in Inu’s tendency to be guided by personal relationships, he said.
Badal alleged the Election Commission had not given Prodhan a chance to contest, though he had the backing of several councillors.
The EC suggested secret ballot to decide the issue, but merely looked on when Prodhan sought a chance to speak while being shouted down by Inu and Akhter’s supporters.
“We had requested Inu to let the councillors express their views,” Badal said, adding that the plea had gone unheeded and squarely blamed Inu for the split.
Badal was confident the party would rise like a “Phoenix” despite the break-up.
As for the JaSoD office, Badal said the issue would be decided in course of time.
Source: bdnews24
