Shamsher Mobin Chy likely to return to BNP
Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a decorated freedom fighter and diplomat-turned-politician, is likely to return to the party he left after announcing his retirement from politics on health grounds, according to BNP sources. Some BNP leaders close to the former foreign secretary have been entrusted with the responsibility of persuading him to return home and rejoin his old job in the party to revamp his foreign contacts, according to a source in the BNP chairpersons Gulshan office. According to him, Chowdhury, staying in the USA, will join the BNP after a meeting with party chairperson Khaleda Zia as soon as he arrives in the country. The BNP leadership is feeling the absence of two persons in maintaining the partys foreign liaison efficiently. One of them, senior journalist Shaifk Rahman, has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap and murder the Prime Ministers son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy. The other, Dr Osman Faruk, reportedly left the country after his name cropped up during investigation into charges of crimes against humanity. The two were engaged in maintaining liaison with foreign diplomats, said the source. The former diplomat retired form politics on October 29 last year on health grounds, but expressed his frustration about the future of BNP politics. He had submitted his resignation letter to then acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, but the BNP kept it under wraps.
