Govt forced Zahidur to take oath: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the government has mounted a pressure on party leader Zahidur Rahman to take oath as a member of the 11th parliament.
Fakhrul came up with the allegation a day after Zahidur, elected from Thakurgaon-3 constituency in December 30 national elections, took oath as MP yesterday against the party’s decision of not joining parliament.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. “We are sure of that there was a government pressure behind Zahidur Rahman’s oath taking but we don’t care about this,” Fakhrul said after placing wreath at the grave of late party founder Ziaur Rahman in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka this noon.
“It is undoubtedly a government pressure but we are not worried of it at all,” Fakhrul said.
Claiming Zahidur’s oath-taking as a blatant violation of the party’s organisational decision, Fakhrul said, his party will go for a tough action against the violators.
Fakhrul along with a number of leaders and activists of BNP’s woman front Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, went to the grave on the occasion of forming of its full-pledged committee.
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