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JP, AL leaders lobby for party ticket

3 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

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Several leaders of Jatiya Party (JP) and Awami League (AL) have started lobbying with the party high ups for nomination for contesting the by-election to Kurigram-2 constituency vacated by JP Chairman HM Ershad. Ershad, who won three parliamentary seats in the December 29 elections, had retained Dhaka-17 constituency and vacated Kurigram-2 and Rangpur-3 before taking oath as member of the parliament. Three former JP lawmakers, Golam Habib Dulal, Lily Choudhury, Karim Uddin Vorasha, and Maj (retd) Abdus Salam and Md Shamsul Hoque are making frantic efforts to get JP nomination for contesting the by poll from Kurigram-2 constituency. Golam Habib Dulal got defeated in Kurigram-4 while Karim Uddin Varosha in Rangpur-4 constituencies in the December 29 elections. Lily Choudhury was JP MP from reserved seats in the eighth parliament. A leader of JP district unit requesting anonymity said most of the party leaders and activists won't accept any outsider as JP candidate for this parliamentary seat. He said Karim Uddin Varosha and Golam Habib Dulal are not residents of this constituency and chance of their winning in the by-poll is bleak. Dulal is from Chilmari upazila of Kurigram while Varosha from Kounia upazila in Rangpur. Awami League district unit president Maj Gen (retd) AMSA Ameen and secretary Zafar Ali are also lobbying with the party high ups for nomination to contest the election to Kurigram-2 constituency. Before December 29 election, AL nominated Zafar Ali as its candidate for the constituency. Later, he was withdrawn in favour of grand alliance candidate HM Ershad.