This clears the way for the social media star to contest the Bogura-4 seat in the Dec 30 polls. Hero Alom, who had 390,588 followers on his Facebook page on Monday, came to fame with amateur music videos that fired up social media. Alom then took the matter to the High Court. He can run for office.”“I am very happy now,” Alom told reporters after the decision. We have shown them up at the High Court.”Hero Alom had initially requested the Jatiya Party’s nomination for the Bagura-4 (Kahalu-Nandigram) seat.

Source: bd News24 December 10, 2018 11:54 UTC