Commotion over nomination brews

BNP men declare Mojahid unwanted in Faridpur

Political parties' picks for the parliamentary polls stirred up discontent and conflict between party grassroots in many constituencies across the country with people barricading roads and burning effigies in different areas.
Many listed criminals, corruption suspects and convicted former lawmakers also submitted nomination papers.
In Chandpur, supporters of two rebel BNP candidates have been separately protesting against the party pick for two days. They demanded cancellation of former lawmaker GM Fazlul Haque's nomination for Chandpur-3.
Supporters of BNP leader Mahbubur Rahman Shahin, who failed to get BNP ticket, set up barricade on Chandpur-Comilla Highway, snapping road communication for around two hours, and burned tyres and an effigy of Fazlul.
On Sunday, supporters of BNP leader Sheikh Farid Ahmed Manik, another BNP ticket aspirant, locked the party office at JM Sengupta Road and burnt an effigy of Fazlul.
In Faridpur, BNP and its front organisations declared Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid unwanted and vowed to prevent all anti-Liberation War forces in the district.
During a press conference at Faridpur Press Club yesterday afternoon, the leaders said Mojahid is a controversial and a hated figure.
They will observe a hunger strike at Faridpur Press Club today in protest.
Meanwhile, the divide between BNP and Jamaat is widening in Kushtia after Jamaat leader Abdul Wahed expressed his determination to contest the poll in Kushtia-2 even though BNP nominated its former lawmaker Shahidul Islam there.
Wahed, who filed his nomination papers as an independent, has already started his campaign.
Internal row in Magura Awami League (AL) developed after the party nominated MS Akbar or Magura-1. Rival party men in Sreepur upazila formed six teams under the banner of "Akbar Resistance Committee" to prevent him from visiting the upazila.
They also declared 12-day-long agitation programmes including hunger strikes and protest processions.
The BNP-led four-party alliance's nomination of Jamaat candidates in three out four constituencies in Satkhira triggered discontent among local BNP rank and file.
Two aggrieved BNP leaders submitted nomination papers in two Satkhira constituencies as independents.
Meanwhile, two absconding convicted former lawmakers of BNP--Hafiz Ibrahim and Nurul Islam Moni--submitted nomination papers as independent candidates for Bhola-3 and Barguna-2 constituencies.
Moni was awarded 14 years' rigorous imprisonment for embezzling government relief materials while Hafiz was sentenced to 13 years' rigorous imprisonment for corruption.
Convicted former BNP state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar submitted nomination papers for Netrakona-4 failing to get the BNP ticket.
Former lawmaker Wadud Bhuiyan's nephew Daudul Islam Bhuiyan and Ujjal Smriti Chakma, who submitted nomination papers as independents, are listed criminals in Khagrachhari constituency, according to police and intelligence agencies.
Seven other candidates of Khagrachhari are facing at least 51 cases.

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Commotion over nomination brews

BNP men declare Mojahid unwanted in Faridpur

Political parties' picks for the parliamentary polls stirred up discontent and conflict between party grassroots in many constituencies across the country with people barricading roads and burning effigies in different areas.
Many listed criminals, corruption suspects and convicted former lawmakers also submitted nomination papers.
In Chandpur, supporters of two rebel BNP candidates have been separately protesting against the party pick for two days. They demanded cancellation of former lawmaker GM Fazlul Haque's nomination for Chandpur-3.
Supporters of BNP leader Mahbubur Rahman Shahin, who failed to get BNP ticket, set up barricade on Chandpur-Comilla Highway, snapping road communication for around two hours, and burned tyres and an effigy of Fazlul.
On Sunday, supporters of BNP leader Sheikh Farid Ahmed Manik, another BNP ticket aspirant, locked the party office at JM Sengupta Road and burnt an effigy of Fazlul.
In Faridpur, BNP and its front organisations declared Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid unwanted and vowed to prevent all anti-Liberation War forces in the district.
During a press conference at Faridpur Press Club yesterday afternoon, the leaders said Mojahid is a controversial and a hated figure.
They will observe a hunger strike at Faridpur Press Club today in protest.
Meanwhile, the divide between BNP and Jamaat is widening in Kushtia after Jamaat leader Abdul Wahed expressed his determination to contest the poll in Kushtia-2 even though BNP nominated its former lawmaker Shahidul Islam there.
Wahed, who filed his nomination papers as an independent, has already started his campaign.
Internal row in Magura Awami League (AL) developed after the party nominated MS Akbar or Magura-1. Rival party men in Sreepur upazila formed six teams under the banner of "Akbar Resistance Committee" to prevent him from visiting the upazila.
They also declared 12-day-long agitation programmes including hunger strikes and protest processions.
The BNP-led four-party alliance's nomination of Jamaat candidates in three out four constituencies in Satkhira triggered discontent among local BNP rank and file.
Two aggrieved BNP leaders submitted nomination papers in two Satkhira constituencies as independents.
Meanwhile, two absconding convicted former lawmakers of BNP--Hafiz Ibrahim and Nurul Islam Moni--submitted nomination papers as independent candidates for Bhola-3 and Barguna-2 constituencies.
Moni was awarded 14 years' rigorous imprisonment for embezzling government relief materials while Hafiz was sentenced to 13 years' rigorous imprisonment for corruption.
Convicted former BNP state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar submitted nomination papers for Netrakona-4 failing to get the BNP ticket.
Former lawmaker Wadud Bhuiyan's nephew Daudul Islam Bhuiyan and Ujjal Smriti Chakma, who submitted nomination papers as independents, are listed criminals in Khagrachhari constituency, according to police and intelligence agencies.
Seven other candidates of Khagrachhari are facing at least 51 cases.

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