Gonoforum today expelled Sultan Mohammad Mansur for taking oath as parliament member violating the party’s discipline.
Mosfata Mohsin Montu, general secretary of Gonoforum, made the announcement at a press conference at its office in Dhaka, hours after Mansur took oath as a member of the parliament.
Monsur contested the from Moulvibazar-2 and won the seat under the ‘paddy sheaf’ symbol under the banner of Gonoforum, a component of Jatiya Oikyafront.
Earlier in the morning, he took oath as a member of the parliament. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered him oath at Jatiya Sangsad.
He has gone outside the decision of his party Gonoforum and its greater political alliance Jatiya Oikyafront to take oath as a lawmaker.
The other lawmaker-elect of Gonoforum Mokabbir Khan did not take oath.
The two Gonoforum lawmakers-elect on Saturday wrote to the Speaker expressing their willingness to take oath on March 7.
Senior Gonoforum leaders said they would take all kinds of actions against the two leaders if they took oath disobeying the party's decision.
Just around a month before the national election, the BNP, the Gonoforum and some other political parties had formed Jatiya Oikyafront.
Oikyafront leaders, including Dr Kamal Hossain, boycotted the eleciton results and called for a new election.
The BNP won only six seats against 289 by the ruling Awami League-led Grand Alliance.
All the six MPs-elect of BNP decided not to join the Jatiya Sangsad.
