BNP’s Rizvi rebuffs nomination ‘green signal’ reports as ‘conspiracy’

BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has dismissed reports suggesting that some party leaders have already received a “green signal” on party nominations, calling the claims baseless and misleading. Speaking at an emergency press conference at the party headquarters in Naya Paltan on Tuesday, the BNP senior joint secretary general said no candidate had been given prior approval to run from any constituency. He insisted that nominations would be made through the party’s established organisational process, based on individual performance in party activities, and not on the basis of what he described as “green signals”. Rizvi explained decisions on candidates for the national election, or any other poll, rest with the party’s parliamentary board. "Our parliamentary board, as you know, is...