Election 2008

Jamaat campaigns against BNP men in Bogra-4,5

AL's Manna to run independent in Bogra-2

2 December 2008, 18:00 PM

Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra

From left (clockwise): Akram Hossain, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Mostafa Ali Mukul and AKM Hafizur Rahman.

Jamaat-e-Islami is campaigning for party nominee Nazir Ahmed in Bogra-4 (Khaloo-Nandigram) where the 4-party alliance has nominated Engineer Mostafa Ali Mukul in the upcoming polls. Talking to this correspondent over cell phone yesterday, Bogra Jamaat Ameer Amir Shahab Uddin said, “Our party men have started full swing door to door campaign”. He ignored Mostafa Ali Mukal's candidature, claiming that Jamaat has 70,000 voters out of 2,54,740 in the constituency. In Bogra-2 (Shibgonj), the four-party alliance first nominated former lawmaker AKM Hafizur Rahman but replaced him with former student leader MR Islam Shadhin just before submission of nomination due to intra-party feud. AL leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna submitted nomination as an independent candidate in the constituency after the grand alliance gave ticket to businessman Akram Hossain. In Bogra-5 (Sherpur-Dhanut), the 4-party alliance declared businessman Shafiuzzman Khakon, BNP leader Jan-e-Alam and BNP central leader and Sherpur town BNP president Mahabubur Rahman Hares as alliance candidates. Jamaat leader Rustom Ali also submitted nomination paper for the constituency ignoring alliance decision, said Shahab Uddin. AL also failed to finally select a single candidate for Bogra-5 constituency. Still there are two hopefuls-Habib-ur-Rahman Habib and AL Bogra district secretary Majibur Rahman Majnu.