Khoka resigns from Dhaka BNP

BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka has announced his resignation as the convenor of the party’s Dhaka metropolitan unit. “I don’t want to handle this responsibility anymore. I have asked the leader (Khaleda Zia) to reorganise the Metropolitan city unit. She has said steps for that will be taken very soon,” the BNP vice chairman told a media briefing on Wednesday. His announcement comes amid criticisms within the party over his failure to intensify BNP’s recent agitations. Khoka is a former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation and has led the party’s city unit for a long time. On May 2011, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia approved the metropolitan unit’s convening committee with Khoka as the convenor and Abdus Salam as the member secretary. A full committee was supposed to be formed through a council meeting within six months, but that did not happen.- bdnews24.com