T Zaman Niketa Bogura, a joint general secretary of the ruling party’s Bogura district unit, will contest in the by-polls slated for on June 24 with the boat logo. The Awami League’s local government nomination board picked Zaman in a meeting at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Ganabhaban residence on Sunday, the party’s Joint General Secretary Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif said. In the Dec 30 parliamentary elections last year, the Awami League did not field any candidate for the seat. The Jatiya Party’s Nurul Islam Omar was the candidate of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance for the constituency. All of them, except BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul, finally took oath of office after much drama.

Source: bd News24 May 19, 2019 17:48 UTC