BNP expels 9 including Rumeen Farhana from all party posts

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled Barrister Rumeen Farhana, its national executive committee's co-international affairs secretary, for conducting organisational activities in defiance of party decisions.

The information was disclosed in a notice signed by the BNP's senior joint secretary general, Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

The notice stated that Rumeen Farhana has been expelled from all levels of the party, including her primary membership.

Simultaneously, the BNP has expelled eight other leaders. The other expelled leaders are national executive committee members Muhammad Gias Uddin, Mohammad Shah Alam, Hasan Mamun, and Abdul Khaleq; former central Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal co-president and Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Welfare Front general secretary Tarun De; former Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP convenor Saiful Alam Nirbh; Sylhet District BNP vice-president Mamunur Rashid; and Mehdi Hasan Palash, president of the Bancharampur upazila BNP in Brahmanbaria district.

The notice clarified that these leaders have been expelled from all levels of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), including their primary membership.

Rumeen Farhana, Saiful Alam and Hasan Mamun—all three have become independent candidates in the 13th national parliament election. BNP has announced Maulana Junaid Al Habib, central vice-president of alliance partner Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Bangladesh, as the alliance's candidate in the Brahmanbaria-2 constituency of Rumeen Farhana.

Saiful Alam was initially nominated by BNP as a candidate for the Dhaka-12 constituency. Later, BNP gave up the seat to Saiful Haque, general secretary of another alliance partner, the Biplobi Workers Party. Saiful Alam then filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate.

BNP has given the Patuakhali-3 constituency, comprising the Galachipa-Dashmina constituency of Hasan Mamun, former president of the Dhaka University unit of Chhatra Dal, to Nurul Haque, president of the Gana Odhikar Parishad, another partner party of the Juggapat movement. Hasan Mamun, who has been campaigning for a long time to contest the national elections, has also filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate there.