Staff Reporter :
BNP has nominated 25 leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, a key component of the 20-party alliance, to contest in the upcoming polls with its electoral symbol ‘Sheaf of Paddy’.
It has handed out nomination letters, signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to Jamaat men with nomination papers for submitting to the offices of the Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers, the party insider
said and we did it, said Jamaat leader.
“We received 25 nomination letters from the BNP,” Matiur Rahman Akand, Organising Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, told the reporter yesterday (Wednesday).
As political party the Jamaat cannot contest in the election since its registration with the Election Commission cancelled by the High Court.
Therefore, the party men were primarily preparing for contesting in the parliamentary polls as independent candidates. If they would participate in the polls as independent candidates, they would not have got a common symbol for all.
BNP has nominated 25 leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, a key component of the 20-party alliance, to contest in the upcoming polls with its electoral symbol ‘Sheaf of Paddy’.
It has handed out nomination letters, signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to Jamaat men with nomination papers for submitting to the offices of the Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers, the party insider
said and we did it, said Jamaat leader.
“We received 25 nomination letters from the BNP,” Matiur Rahman Akand, Organising Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, told the reporter yesterday (Wednesday).
As political party the Jamaat cannot contest in the election since its registration with the Election Commission cancelled by the High Court.
Therefore, the party men were primarily preparing for contesting in the parliamentary polls as independent candidates. If they would participate in the polls as independent candidates, they would not have got a common symbol for all.
