BNP expels Rumeen, 8 others for discipline breach

BNP Assistant International Affairs Secretary, Barrister Rumeen Farhana, and eight other leaders have been expelled for being candidates in the 13th parliamentary election, defying party decisions.

The remaining expelled leaders are BNP's national executive committee members Muhammad Gias Uddin, Mohammad Shah Alam, Hasan Mamun, and Abdul Khaleque, Chhatra Dal's former vice-president Tarun Dey, Dhaka North City BNP's former convener Saiful Alam Nirab, Sylhet district BNP vice-president Mamunur Rashid, and Brahmanbaria's Bancharampur upazila unit BNP president Mehidy Hasan Palash.

They have been removed from all party posts, including primary membership, a press release signed by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday, December 30.

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