Election 2008Tangail -4

Latif's withdrawal to better Azad's chance

15 December 2008, 18:00 PM

Mirza Shakil, Tangail

Latif and Azad

The withdrawal of nomination paper by Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) candidate Shamim-al-Monsur Azad Siddiqui in Tangail-4 (Kalihati) constituency has brightened the prospect of Awami League (AL)-led grand alliance candidate in the upcoming national election. The grand alliance has nominated AL's central leader Abdul Latif Siddiqui for the constituency, and he (Latif) will now fight BNP-led four-party candidate industrialist Lutfar Rahman Matin. In 2001 election, Latif Siddiqui lost to BNP candidate Shajahan Siraj with a margin of 5138 votes as his younger brother KSJL President Abdul Kader Siddiqui Bir Uttam sliced away 13,747 votes as KSJL candidate. This time also, Kader Siddiqui and his younger brother Azad Siddiqui, joint convener of Tangail district unit of KSJL, submitted their nomination papers for the constituency as KSJL candidates. But during the scrutiny, the Election Commission did not except the nomination paper of Kader Siddiqui as his (Kader) name was in the second position in the serial of the party nominations. Azad Siddiqui withdrew his nomination paper on the last day for withdrawal.