Jamaat’s sway over BNP to end soon: B Chy

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Former Dhaka University vice-chancellor Emajuddin Ahamed said the Bangladeshi politicians lacked the practice of ‘thinking, reading and writing.’
‘Our politicians should think widely about the nation; they should have practice of reading and writing,’ he said at a book launching ceremony at a city hotel Friday.
‘Your dreams should reach the next generation through your writings so that they can fulfil your dreams,’ the noted political scientist said.
The cover of the book ‘Attasattar Rajniti ebong Amar Bhabna’, written by Jaitya Party lawmaker and former cabinet minister of Ziaur Rahman AKM Maidul Islam was unveiled at the function.
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party will be free from the influence of Jamaat-e-Islami soon as BNP is facing pressure from different corners.
Chowdhury, also the founder secretary general of the BNP, also said he was still a BNP man although he now belonged to a separate political party.
‘BNP is passing through its third stage; after the periods of Zia and Khaleda, it is now in the period of Jamaat-based politics’.
‘…but the influence of Jamaat on BNP will last no longer as pressures are coming from different corners,’ Badruddoza said.
‘BNP’s fourth stage is the politics of Zia; It will enter the villages and connect to the people again as Zia did’, he said.
The former president of Bangladesh criticised the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for not signing the Teesta water sharing agreement during his recent Dhaka visit.
‘You have done 22 agreements… The Land Boundary Agreement that was prepared before your Dhaka visit has benefited only enclave people, but what will be the fate of the two crore people of the bank of river Teesta?’ he asked.
‘The agreements [between Bangladesh and other countries] must be on a win-win basis, but Modi came and conquered and we just looked on foolishly,’ Badruddoza
said.
He also criticised Modi’s Hindi speech on Dhaka University campus and said he had imposed his own language on us.
BNP standing committee member Jamiruddin Sircar, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Enam Ahmed Chowdhury, journalists Reazuddin Ahmed and Abdul Hye Sikder, among others, spoke at the event.
source: New Age