BN Report
BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan says the party does not consider US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu to be important for it.
“Donald Lu is not so important to us. The activities of Kuki-Chin separatist group are more important to us than Donald Lu,” he told a press briefing at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday (May 13).
Replying to a query from a journalist about Lu’s visit to Bangladesh, Nazrul said: “We are concerned about our own country and Donald Lu’s matter is not important to us.”
Lu is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (May 14) on a two-day visit. Last year, he tried to make unwelcome interventions in Bangladesh’s politics but failed to have an impact.
The BNP, which went on to boycott the January 7 polls, pinned its hopes on the US intervention. In November, just weeks before the election, Lu wrote to the Awami League, BNP and Jatiya Party but none of them responded positively.
