Dhaka: BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday said it will turn a nightmare for the ruling Awami League if it dreams of splitting BNP.

He also suggested Awami League to put its own house in order instead of rejoicing any BNP leader’s departure.

Nazrul, a BNP standing committee member, came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after placing wreathes at party founder Ziaur Rahman’s grave with the leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, marking its 24th founding anniversary.

Giving his party’s reaction to the AL leaders’ remarks that BNP will fall apart facing splits, he said, ‘Any person likes to say what he or she thinks. If it’s their (AL men’s) dream of splitting BNP, I would like to say it’ll turn a nightmare for them. Freedom fighters can’t desert BNP which is a shelter for pro-liberation forces and a party of the proclimaer of the independence.’

On Thursday, Mobin, a diplomat-turned politician, announced his retirement from politics resigning from BNP's all the posts on health ground.

Nazrul said they did not find any reason for which Awami League can be happy over the retirement of their party vice chairman Shamsher Mobin from politics as he did not join any party.

The BNP leader said the ruling party men are actually trying to confuse people by showing their enthusiasm about Mobin’s retirement.

He said Mobin did not desert BNP as he was forced to quit politics by creating pressure on him by filing ‘false’ cases against him and obstructing him from going abroad for his medical treatment. ‘As he (Mobin) is not a seasoned politician, he succumbed to the pressure and quit politics.’

‘We would like to tell the ruling party that it’ll be better for them to put their own house in order instead of thinking who is leaving BNP. As long as you’re in power you may think everything is alright. But, you should try to realise how much your party is waning silently,’ he said pointing at the ruling party leaders.

Criticising Awami League leaders for their remarks that BNP chief Khaleda Zia is conspiring in London, Nazrul said those who resort to plots they find a plot everywhere. ‘BNP doesn’t believe in the politics of conspiracy.’