A BNP press release signed by its assistant office secretary Taiful Islam Tipu on Saturday said 18 party leaders in three districts -- Chattogram, Pirojpur and Dinajpur -- were also stripped off their primary memberships.
They are Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila BNP leader Syed Mostafa Alam Masum, Pirojpur’s Indurkani upazila leader Faizul Kabir Talukder, Nazirpur upazila Mohila Dal general secretary Selina Begum, Nesarabad upazila Mohila Dal president Jahanara Begum, Dinajpur Mohila Dal joint general secretaries Firoza Begum, Akhtara Chowdhury, Parbatipur upazila Mohila Dla general secretary Sahida Khatun, Fulbari upazila Mohila Dal general secretary Hasna Begum, Birampur upazila joint general secretary Delwar Hossain, organising secretary Monjur Rashid Ratan, its Mohila Dal general secretary Umme Kulsum Banu, Municipality unit organising secretary Abdul Hye, Nawabganj upazila Mohila Dal president Lipi Begum, assistant Mohila Dal affairs secretary Shabana Begum, Kaharole upazila Jubo Dal joint secretary Habibur Rahman Habi, Khansama upazila BNP member ATM Sujauddin, Hakimpur upazila Mohila Dal president Parul Nahar and Municipality unit organising secretary Wahidur Rahman Ripon.
With these fresh ones, the party has so far expelled around 142 grassroots leaders over the last one month for joining the upazila elections as independent candidates breaching the party’s decision.