BNP starts withdrawing expulsions on UZ-level leaders

Dhaka, July 10 – The BNP now starts backing home around 200 grassroots leaders who were expelled for participating in last Upazila elections held followed the December 30 parliamentary polls.
As part of the endavour, the party has withdrawn expulsion order from 34 leaders at district and Upazila levels till Monday.
A senior BNP leader preferring anonymity said that the expulsion orders are withdrawing upon their applications seeking apology as the party backtracked from its earlier decision of not joining any election under the present government.
The BNP that rejected the last general election over vote rigging had boycotted the Upazila elections held in five phases since March 10 across the country. “The rest grassroots leaders will also be brought back to the party fold soon,” said the leader.
As the BNP at the last moment backtracked from its decision of not joining parliament is also revising its other decision in line with latest development.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir recently at a press conference said that the BNP leaders can independently took part in forthcoming Union Parishad elections.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said many of the expelled leaders have already applied for withdrawing the expulsion order. The party is taking decision gradually by examining their applications, he said.
Sources said a total of 206 leaders at district and upazila units of BNP and its front organizations had been expelled as either they took part in the upazila elections in violation of the party decision or worked for other candidates.
Expulsion orders of those leaders were withdrawn include former joint secretary of Chapainawabganj district BNP Anwarul Islam, former joint secretary of Sarail upazila unit of BNP Nuruzzaman Loskar, former joint convenor of Manikganj district unit of Juba Dal Abdul Halim Khan Monwar, former lawmaker Liakat Hossain, former general secretary of Cumilla North unit of BNP Md Sadek Hossain Sarder and former vice president of Sunamganj district BNP Anisul Haque. – Staff Reporter
Hira Sobahan’s solo miniature art exhibition at AFD on Friday
The inaugural ceremony of the 3rd solo miniature art exhibition titled ‘Life and the Narrative of Time-1’ by artist Prof. Dr Hira Sobahan will be held at its La Galerie on Friday, 12 July at 5.30 pm.
K M Khalid MP, the honorable state minister, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, People’s Republic of Bangladesh will attend the opening ceremony as the chief guest while eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi will attend the event as the special guest.
There are around 101 artworks will be in display for this exhibition.
About the Exhibition: Famous art critic John Lumsden Propert writes in ‘A History of Miniature Art’,
‘The Regent diamond, or the Koh-i-noor is small in comparison with the paving-stones on our highways and almost infinitesimal in juxtaposition with the boulder on the mountain side, but they are certainly not insignificant, and the power and light condensed within their small circumference may be justly compared with the force, life, and truth concentrated by the hand of a master on an inch or two of vellum, paper or ivory, bearing the same sort of relation to the larger panels and canvases that the gem does to the rock.’
For his third solo miniature art exhibition, Prof. Dr Hira Sobahan has brought about a narrative of the time employing oil pastel, pen ink and acrylic on newsprint. He is particularly conversant with modern approaches of art, namely concrete, semi-abstract and abstract. His artworks depict the natural beauties of this country, the modern way of life, disasters, the various shortcomings of society, and social decadence, among others. The title of his exhibition is ‘Life and the Narrative of Time-1’. Out of his 500 miniature artworks, only 101 will be in display for the exhibition.
Dr. Hira Sobahan (Md. Abdus Sobahan) was born in 24 May 1970 at the village Nandibari in Muktagacha of Mymensingh district. He is a well known print maker, painter, designer, researcher and writer. Currently he is a professor of printmaking at the Department of Painting Oriental Art and Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Rajshahi.
The exhibition will be open to all till Thursday, 23 July 2019 at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka. Visiting Hours: Monday to Thursday from 3:00pm to 9:00pm, Friday and Saturday (9:00am to12:00 noon and 5:00pm to 8:00pm). Closed on Sunday. – Press release