26 BNP MPS AND MINISTERS JOIN NEWLY FLOATED POLITICAL PARTY IN BANGLADESH!

October 26, 2006 (Press Release) -- AN HOUR BEFORE, 26 MPS AND MINISTERS OF RULING BANGLADESH NATIONALIST PARTY (BNP) JOINED A NEW POLITICAL PARTY FORMED BY FORMER COLONEL AND MEMBER OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF BNP OLI AHMED. COLONEL (RETIRED) OLI AHMED HAD BEEN EXTREMELY CRITICAL OF BNP LEADER’S MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN PAST FIVE YEARS. THE NEW POLITICAL PARTY NAMED, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (NDA) HELD A PRESS BRIEFING AT CITY’S GULSHAN AREA AN HOUR BACK. COLONEL (RETIRED) OLI ALSO TOLD REPORTERS THAT, SOME 200 ‘ARMY OFFICERS’ HAVE ALSO JOINED HIS PARTY, BUT HE DECLINED TO DISCLOSE THEIR NAMES FOR SECURITY REASON. MEANWHILE, FORMER PRESIDENT PROFESSOR BADRUDDOZA CHOWDHURY ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY NAMED ‘BIKALPADHARA’ ALSO JOINED THIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY. IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THAT, STATE MINISTER FOR WOMEN AFFAIRS, ALAMGIR KABIR, PRIME MINISTER’S ADVISOR MRS. JAHANARA BEGUM, FORMER ENERGY MINISTER MAJOR GENERAL (RETIRED) ALWARUL KABIR TALUKDER, DEPUTY MINISTER FOR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS MANI SWAPAN DEWAN AND FORMER STATE MINISTER REZWAN AHMED ATTENDED THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE NEWLY FLOATED POLITICAL PARTY AND ANNOUNCED THEIR JOINING. IT IS ALSO LEARNT THAT NAMES OF OTHERS WILL BE SOON MADE PUBLIC. MEANWHILE, TIGHT SECURITY HAS BEEN PUT AT THE RESIDENCE OF OPPOSITION LEADER SHEIKH HASINA, WHERE ABOVE 1000 SECURITY PERSONNELS ARE NOW DEPLOYED. FROM THIS EVENING A JOINT ANTI-TERROR OPERATION BY POLICE, BDR AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE LAW ENFORCING AGENCIES WILL BEGIN. IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THAT, ALAMGIR KABIR, WHO JUST JOINED THE NEWLY FLOATED POLITICAL PARTY WAS AN OPEN SUPPORTER OF JAMAATUL MUJAHEDIN BANGLADESH (JMB). PRIME MINISTER BEGUM KHALEDA ZIA WILL ADDRESS THE NATION ON FRIDAY EVENING ON COMPLETION OF HER FIVE YEAR TERM. THE FORMATION OF NEW POLITICAL PARTY ALTHOUGH WAS PREDICTED FOR PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, JOINING OF BNP’S MPS AND MINISTERS BROUGHT A BIG BLOW TO ITS LEADERSHIP.
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