Noman Sabit: US Awami League play ‘Jivant Kabar’ was staged in front of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He sat on the stage and directly enjoyed the United States Awami League’s drama ‘Jibanta Kabar’. Last September 22 (Friday) evening, the play ‘Jibanta Kabar’ of United States AL was staged in the auditorium of Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan, New York. Produced by Imdadur Rahman Chowdhury, the son of the notorious Razakar of Habiganj and Directed by accused of corrupted Bangladesh Awami League’s publicity secretary and member of parliament Md. Abdus Sobhan Mia (Golap), thousands of Awami League leaders and activists including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina enjoyed the play directly on the stage. There are many rumors going on among the leaders of the United States Awami League that most of the money of the drama with a large budget has gone into the director’s pocket through the producer.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the United Nations General Session for the 19th time on September 22. Every year, 3/4 weeks before the arrival of the Prime Minister in the United States, party leaders and workers are in a festive mood. The Bangladeshi-polluted states of the United States are busy for about a month. Various preparations have been going on for 3/4 months to give a civic welcome to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. For Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s civic reception, huge sums of money were spent on the rent of a luxury hotel auditorium in New York and incidental expenses from the central fund of the party. Leaders and activists have become banana trees by trading chairs to sit on the platform chair with the Prime Minister. Since 2018, the trade of chairs to sit on the stage with the Prime Minister has stopped. In 2019, She was the only one sitting on the stage at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s civic reception. As a result of covid-19, there has been a decline in the luxury chair trade for the last 3 years (2020-22). Because the Prime Minister did not come directly to the stage for 3 years. She gave a virtual speech at the civic reception. Thousands of leaders and activists of United States Awami League listened to her speech on a huge color screen.
In the current year (2023), various exercises are going on for a month around the civic reception of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. United States Awami League leaders and activists are divided into two groups.
There is a tug-of-war between the two groups of Awami League regarding the civic reception. There is a fierce competition between the Awami League in the United States and the New York Mahanagar Awami League. Confusion arises as the Prime Minister or central government does not reveal who is in whose hands the directive is. Both the parties separately printed posters of civic welcome to campaign. As a result, expatriates including ordinary workers are in extreme dilemma.
After staying in the country for a long time, the president of the United States Awami League Dr. Siddiqur Rahman returned to New York. He held several meetings upon reaching New York. He could not say clearly whether there is any instruction given to Awami League in the United States to provide civil reception to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in these gatherings.
Siddiqur Rahman always publishes press releases on his own Facebook. He made various announcements there. In the Facebook notice, he mentioned that the US Awami League is the host of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s civic reception. But the New York Mahanagar Awami League could not accept it. During Siddiqur Rahman’s stay in the country, the Metropolitan Awami League printed and circulated posters announcing the civic reception of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Local time on Saturday (September 9) at a press conference in a restaurant in Jackson Heights. Siddiqur Rahman and General Secretary Abdus Samad Azad made it clear that the US Awami League was the only host for the PM’s civic reception. The United States Awami League has been doing this for almost a decade. No other organization or group has any jurisdiction to accept such arrangements.
Meanwhile, at the end of the rally on the same day in the evening, Dr. Masudur Rahman said on behalf of the New York Mahanagar Awami League that the central committee has instructed the New York Mahanagar Awami League to host the civic reception this time. Accepting it, he urged everyone to work unitedly. New York Mahanagar Awami League President Rafiqul Islam Rafiq and General Secretary Imdadur Rahman Chowdhury (Imdad) expressed similar views.
The intense fight between the two groups of Awami League around the civic reception of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has an impact on ordinary workers. They get confused. Then there was extreme tension among the activists.
New York Mahanagar Awami organized the reception on September 22 in the presence of the Prime Minister and the party president.
Where the United States plays the role of Awami League audience. President of the United States Awami League with a sit-in. Siddiqur Rahman and General Secretary Abdus Samad Azad got a chance to sit on the stage. It is far from the Prime Minister’s seat. The civic reception was conducted by Imdadur Rahman Chowdhury Imdad, General Secretary of New York Mahanagar Awami League and son of notorious war criminal Shahjahan Chowdhury of Habiganj district. Bangladesh Awami League’s publicity secretary and member of parliament, accused of corruption, was standing next to him. Abdus Sobhan Mia (Golap). United States Awami League President Dr. Siddiqur Rahman, General Secretary Abdus Chamad Azad and New York Metropolitan Awami League President Rafiqul Islam Rafiq was sitting on the stage helpless. The most interesting thing is that US Awami League vice-president Fazlur Rahman presided over the reception in front of the president of the party in violation of the party’s constitution in the presence of the president.
The US Awami League’s conspiracy regarding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s civic reception has been going on for a long time. In the hope of sharing money and doing business in the country, everyone is hungry for promotion. Almost every year, Abdus Sobhan Golap comes to the United States as the Prime Minister’s travel companion. He used to come first and meet with everyone and try to compromise. But the result was zero. Then why is he repeatedly tasked with conciliation? No one understands this. Because of that, various unpleasant incidents have also happened in the last few years. Last year, an Awami League worker publicly abused Abdus Sobhan Golap in a hotel lobby in Manhattan. The worker was later dismissed from the party. Due to this incident some employees of the organization were expelled and given show cause notices.
United States Awami League’s divided group is led by the president of the United States Awami League. Part led by Dr. Siddiqur Rahman and General Secretary Abdus Samad Azad. Another part is led by the adviser of the United States Awami League. Pradeep Ranjan Kar, Awami League leader Kazi Qais, Awami League leader Abdur Rahim Badsha, Mohammad Ali Siddiquee and Chandan Dutta among others. But this time they were not seen to dispute. Due to the split between the two groups, the Prime Minister’s civic reception was taken away from the US Awami League since 2018. Due to the dispute, slogans like No More Siddique, No More Siddique were raised in front of the Prime Minister at the civic reception. The Prime Minister himself was annoyed by that slogan. The citizen himself presides over the reception and government bureaucrats conduct the ceremony.
United States Awami League organizing secretary Abdul Hasib Mamun and general worker Abdul Ahad wrote in their Facebook post – The main problem of the United States Awami League currently seems to be the top leadership of the committee. From the last 4/5 years he (Dr. Siddiqur Rahman) is being presided over by the Prime Minister directly and sometimes by the Vice President. She must have realized how humiliating it is to preside over the vice-president even after being the president. But he is enduring that humiliation day after day because of the chamandas. She must have understood that the program was initiated by the Mahanagar Awami League, but the senior vice-president of the United States Awami League presided over it instead of the Mahanagar President. As a result, the entire United States Awami League committee has suffered and is being affected, while some middle-ranking leaders and activists (except for a few) are taking advantage of it, who sit at home all year round and the leader actually leaves the house. In such circumstances he (Abdus Sobhan Golap) should have requested the leader to handle the US conference and leave the responsibility to the new leadership. But he is damaging the whole team by not doing that. Because of his weakness, we saw Kazi Kaes, Muhammad Ali Gong, they did not attend any meeting in the United States for one day every year, but both of them engaged in a fight to give a speech on that day. But many like Abdul Hasib Mamun work for the party year after year and do not get involved in any quarrels for speaking or sitting in the front row. But the leader is actually the opportunists taking all the benefits, this is the current situation. We think that the United States Awami League cannot continue in this way for a long time. It needs to be resolved soon and only the leader can take the team back to a good position. We await the leader’s decision.
In the name of the new committee of Awami League in the United States, wholesale extortion is going on:
Extortion is going on at a wholesale rate within the party with the focus on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s arrival in the United States to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly and the lure of positions in the new committee of the United States Awami League. The transaction of cash is now an open secret by trapping the expatriate ordinary workers of the party in the name of giving them various posts. Bangladesh Awami League publicity secretary and member of parliament. Although high-level leaders including Trinamool party workers know about Abdus Sobhan Mia (Golap) and his representative in the United States of extortion at a wholesale rate, no one can say a word against him.
Bangladesh Awami League publicity secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap has been published in various media before. He owns many houses in the US which are in his and his wife’s and children’s names. Investigation revealed that apart from New York, he has many houses and properties anonymously in Washington DC and Florida.
By breaking the name of special assistant to the prime minister, there is no place that he did not extort. He is collecting thousands of dollars from expatriate workers of the party as he needs funds for the upcoming elections. A leader of New York Mahanagar Awami League is working in the United States as the main agent of this extortion.
Also there are many more sub agents. The United States is collecting large sums of money from various people claiming to get a post in the new committee of Awami League. Several leaders of the United States Awami League said on the condition of anonymity that we are hostage to Golap. Just as Golap is extorting Bangladesh, innocent party leaders are extorting extortion from the workers abroad, which has tarnished the reputation of the party and the prime minister for a long time.
Abdus Sobhan Mia (Golap) who was recently arrested at Dhaka Airport in a money laundering case and a US Awami League leader and a construction businessman from Brooklyn, New York, Abul Kashem alias Ekashi Kashem, has connived with an Awami League activist from Brooklyn to an important position in the US Awami League. It has been alleged that the amount of cash has been stolen. It is said that they shared the money.
It should be noted that Member of Parliament. Abdus Sobhan Miah (Golap) did not mention in the election affidavit that he has assets outside the country of buying several houses in New York at a cost of 4 million dollars. The global network of investigative journalists ‘Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’ or OCCRP reported on the purchase of a house in the United States by Abdus Sobhan Golap in a report on their website on Friday, January 13 this year.
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