Parliament Whip and Lakshmipur-4 (Ramgati-Kamalnagar) MP from the ruling BNP, ABM Ashraf Uddin Nizan, has expressed strong anger at a section of his own party leaders and activists.
Speaking on Friday evening (13 November 2026), at his residence in Lakshmipur, the MP accused them of illegally occupying others’ land, rivers, canals, and chars (newly formed river islands), engaging in extortion (chandabaji), selling buffalo grass as part of irregularities, and acting as brokers/intermediaries at police stations.
He said using the party’s name for personal gain is unacceptable.
Nizan warned that if they do not stop, he will take harsh action. He asked: “Should I now send them to jail?”
Netizens and opposition leaders and activists have been criticizlsing the government after Nizan’s remarks went viral. They urge strict legal actions against the culprits and accountability in the administration.
He stated that expulsion from the party has already failed to stop some of them. He said he has been trying to control party workers since 5 August (the day the Awami League government fell) but cannot control a section of them.
He claimed personal transparency, noting that no one from Jamaat-e-Islami, NCP, Islami Andolan, or the Awami League has accused him of taking bribes, and asked why his own workers then engage in such acts.
Nizan He also cautioned aspiring local government election candidates that not everyone can become chairman—candidates need public acceptance and at least half his own public image/reputation.
This is not an isolated complaint. In February 2026 (shortly after the national election), the same MP directed cases against 26 of his own BNP leaders and workers in Ramgati on charges of organised violence, extortion (including demanding large sums from businesses such as a brick kiln), and weapons training/display.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has separately flagged a broader pattern of alleged land grabbing, extortion, vandalism, and control of markets, water bodies, terminals, and other resources by sections of BNP leaders and activists since August 2024, describing it as a potential “bad omen” for the party now in power.
In short, a senior BNP parliamentary whip is on record stating that a portion of his own party’s local leaders and workers have been engaged in land grabbing and extortion since the fall of the previous government, that he has been unable to stop them through party discipline, and that he is now contemplating jail.