BNP holds ' '70pc District Councils, leaders', are hand-picked '

BNP 70 per cent councils choose new committees in the districts decided who the BNP said Office Secretary Rizvi Ahmed at a press conference in the city Monday, reports September.

"The District Councils will be performed in the midst of various obstacles and opposition."

Many local councils the main opposition party could not held by internal strife.

Mr Ahmed said that the political forum would decide on including as Councillors in the National Council districts, the councils within the time limit did not know.

Office Secretary of the Party of Naya Paltan Office said, "the subcommittees work to the National Council to make successfully." "Last Monday, our central leaders the Narail District Councils, Northern Mymensingh and Kurigram are including join."

BNP who is National Council held on December 8 in the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.

Replying to a query, Mr Ahmed said: "The Party Election Commission will explain the election timetable for the election of the President." "List of voters is published immediately after the District Councils."

Among other things Jubo Dal were Azad and former student leader Asadul Karim Vice President Qayum Chowdhury, joint General Secretary of Abdus Salam Shahin at the press conference.

Leaders of the BNP would be handpicked Meanwhile by the leader this time also like all former Councils.

"According to the Constitution, there is no provision for the vote and there will be no votes in the National Assembly" BNP Joint Secretary General Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said Sunday.

"In this Council the would are chosen by direct vote of the members of the Council on the basis of the previous Constitution of the party," he told reporters at party headquarters in Naya Paltan.

"The old Committee would be dissolved automatically after the election."

"The newly elected Chairman is the Federal Executive Board, including the new Standing Committee before the Councillors present."

According to the structure of the Organization, the highest position of the Chairman is to vote only if there is more than a candidate.

Already has a Committee of senior party leaders, TH Khan led is formed. The timetable of the election for the Office of the President could be declared on December 1 or 2.

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Civil society leaders hail arrest of Ghulam Azam

Leaders of civil society expressed their satisfaction over the arrest of former ameer of Jama'at-e-Islami Ghulam Azam, saying that the arrest was imperative for holding the trial of war criminals as he was the principal organizer of anti-liberation forces during and after Bangladesh's liberation war, reports BSS.

His arrest has taken the ongoing trial of crimes against humanity a step ahead, they said, adding that it would also send a signal to their protectors at home and abroad that their evil designs would not be able to save the war criminals from trial.

"It is very much expected. He was the leader and chief of those responsible for committing crimes against humanity," said Prof Sirajul Islam Chowdhury while giving his reaction to the arrest of Ghulam Azam.

He said Ghulam Azam was not only active inside the country during the liberation war, he went to Pakistan to show his allegiance to the then Pakistani rulers.

"He was principal organizer and leader of those who have so far been arrested on charges of their involvement in crimes against humanity," Chowdhury added.

Executive director of Ain-o-Salish Kendra Sultana Kamal said Ghulam Azam was the leader of those involved in crimes such as killing, rape, arson and torture during the liberation war.

"It is a great relief for us. He should have been arrested much earlier," said Sultana Kamal, who is also a civil society leader.

She said Ghulam Azam had direct involvement in war crimes and there are recorded evidence against him. After 1975, Ghulam Azam and other war criminals were politically and socially rehabilitated and protected, she added.

"I feel relief...his arrest was imperative and overdue. We raised this demand about 20 years ago under the leadership of Jahanara Imam," said Shahriar Kabir, acting president of Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.

"But his arrest is not enough...International Crimes Tribunal must be strengthened to complete the trial of crimes against humanity by 2013," he said. Shahriar Kabir said, BNP-Jama'at has been trying to foil the trial and they have been carrying out multidimensional campaigns at home and abroad.

"It is certainly a relief for us. Our generation as well as I had to wait over 40 years for it," was the reaction of Prof Muntasir Mamun.

"People were in doubt about the progress of war crimes but the arrest of Ghulam Azam would dispel such a doubt and increase their confidence in the trial," said the history professor of Dhaka University.

He said conspiracy is going on to foil the trial of war criminals and Ghulam Azam has been playing an active role. "His son has launched a campaign - 'save Ghulam Azam' - that was telecast on a Malaysian TV channel," he added.

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Juba League arrested leaders

Gournadi police on Sunday arrested a Juba League leader as suspected killing squad member of murdering a primary school teacher and former JCD leader Farid Zamaddar.

Gournadi police station officer-in-charge (inspection) inspector Mizanur Rahman and investigation officer of the case said that Mukul Jamaddar, 35, was arrested from Diashur in Gournadi municipal town in the morning after tracking the mobile-phone calls of the suspected.

Mukul is a member of Gournadi upazila Juba League upazila convening committee and cousin of Nayon Sharif, 29, secretary and Gournadi Government College units of BCL Kajal Howladar, 28, vice president, two prime accused in the Farid-murder case.

Mukul has been sent to Barisal district police office Sunday noon.

The officer-in-charge of the police station, inspector Nurul Islam, himself took him to the district police office.

The police superintendent of Barisal, dev the Bhattacharyya, said that Mukul what shown arrested after he confessed

interrogation in primary that he what squad in the killing.

Mukul would be further interrogated by an interrogation board of different branches of police and would be produced before the court on today, the SP said.

Earlier Gournadi police recorded the statement Shefali on eye-witness of the incident and interrogated Saddam Sardar and Zia Saradar, two BCL activists, in this connection, said the OC of Gournadi police station.

Shah Farid Zamaddar, 29, former president Chandshi union and vice president Gournadi Government College JCD units and teacher of Pinglakathi Government primary school under Chandshi union in Gournadi upazila what chopped to death in open daylight Thursday morning when they were on their way to school.

Shah Jalal Zamaddar, a primary school teacher and brother of the victim, filed a murder case on Thursday night with Gournadi police station.

He alleged that his brother Shah Farid Zamaddar what he had murdered in a sequel to an altercation last month with local BCL cadres.

BCL cadres led by Nayon and Kajal, swooped on Farid when he what on his way to school and chopped him leaving him homerun injured at about 9.40 am the Thursday and the attending physician at the upazila health complex declared Farid dead when he what taken there, he said.

In protest against the killing of primary school teacher and former JCD leader, half-day Hartal was observed at Gournadi municipal town on Friday and primary school teachers started week-long protest programme wearing black badges and abstaining from work.

Advocate Talukdar MD. Yunus, local AL lawmaker while talking to journalists over cell phone condemned the killing.

He said that he asked the police for holding free and fair investigation and arrest of the killers.

He said that the killing occurred due to personal rivalry and that it had nothing to do with

politics.

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