Muktadesh Desk: BNP has announced candidates for 237 seats. After this announcement, new enthusiasm has spread among the grassroots of BNP. Now there is excitement around the candidates, greetings are being exchanged, and campaigning has increased. Banners and posters have covered the streets from busy cities to remote villages. The anger of those deprived of nomination is gradually subsiding; calls for unity are increasing. The central leadership has also instructed everyone at the field level to work together for the candidate with the symbol of the paddy sheaf.
With the upcoming 13th National Parliament elections ahead, three to 10 potential BNP candidates have worked in the field in the hope of getting party nomination. Based on five surveys on them, the opinions of the party organizational team, and the evaluation of the standing committee leaders, BNP announced potential single candidates for 237 seats last Monday. In this situation, the followers of those deprived of nomination immediately expressed their angry reactions, both publicly and privately. This was seen in some places yesterday as well. Meanwhile, BNP candidate Ershad Ullah, the convener of Chittagong Metropolitan City, was shot and injured during a public meeting in Chittagong-8 constituency on Wednesday. In this situation, individual candidates have pushed aside all obstacles and entered the field with all their might. Some are going to the constituency by road, sea and air from Dhaka; they are showered with floral greetings. Many candidates are running to the homes or offices of the deprived. They are specially requesting to unite in favor of the rice sheaf with their chests. The acting chairman of the party, Tarique Rahman, is also working through various means to build a strong, steel-like unity based on the constituency.
BNP has not yet announced candidates in 63 constituencies. The candidates in these constituencies are campaigning in favor of the rice sheaf. Overall, the Trinamool is now bustling with election enthusiasm. This information has been learned based on reports sent by our time bureau office, our own correspondent, and district representatives.
Chittagong: Candidates have been announced in 10 of the 16 constituencies of Chittagong. BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury arrived in Chittagong by plane yesterday. Hundreds of leaders and activists rushed to the airport to greet the candidate nominated from Chittagong-10 constituency with flowers. Candidates nominated in various constituencies also rushed to the airport.
Ershad Ullah has been nominated for the second time in Chittagong-8 (Chandgaon-Boalkhali) constituency. There was a crowd of leaders and activists at his residence since last Tuesday morning. Sarwar Jamal Nizam, who was nominated from Anwara constituency, was elected twice before. He arrived in Chittagong last Tuesday afternoon. After being received at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport, leaders and activists took him to his home in Anwara’s Taylordwip in a motorcade. Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury’s son Hummam Quader Chowdhury, who entered the election field for the first time, arrived in Chittagong from Dhaka last Tuesday morning. Thousands of leaders and activists welcomed him with garlands of flowers at Shah Amanat International Airport. Yesterday, Wednesday, the young BNP leader Mir Mohammad Helal Uddin, who was nominated for the first time, entered the election field. He is the son of former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation and former state minister Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin. Yesterday, after Zohar, he visited the shrine of the renowned Sufi saint Amanat Shah on the banks of Laldighi in the city. Meanwhile, Aslam Chowdhury’s failure to get nomination from Chittagong-4 constituency has created disappointment and anger among his followers.
Patuakhali: After getting nomination for Patuakhali-1 constituency, the party’s vice chairman Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury rushed to the office of the district BNP president, forgetting the long-standing enmity. At that time, district BNP president Snehangsu Sarkar Kutty welcomed him. Earlier, the first election rally of the BNP-nominated paddy sheaf marker candidate in Patuakhali-1 constituency was held last Tuesday, ahead of the national elections.
Lakshmipur: All the busyness of party-nominated BNP Joint Secretary General Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie is now centered around the upcoming elections. Yesterday, he was present as the chief guest at the eight-hour long Sri Sri Harinam Yajna and Mahotsav-1432 Bangabd program at Sri Sri Radha Govinda Sevashram in Bangakhan village of Lakshmipur Sadar. In his speech at the time, he said, “We will have to fight with the grain of rice in February. You have made the grain of rice win before. I hope you will make the grain of rice win this time too.”
Comilla: Former Mayor of Comilla City Corporation Monirul Haque Sakku has vowed to do everything necessary to make the BNP-nominated candidate in Comilla-6 Sadar constituency, advisor to the party chairperson, Monirul Haque Chowdhury, win.
Faridpur: Yesterday afternoon, the general secretary of the central committee of the Nationalist Farmers’ Party and the party’s nominated candidate Shahidul Islam Babul spoke as the chief guest at the joy rally and election road meeting organized by BNP in Bhanga, Faridpur. Chowdhury Nayab Yusuf, the daughter of the central women’s party joint general secretary and former minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibn Yusuf, has been nominated for the Faridpur-3 constituency. After receiving the nomination, she came to her home in Faridpur-3 constituency that night and visited the grave of her late father. Later, she exchanged greetings with the leaders and activists of the Sadar constituency.
Narayanganj and Sonargaon: BNP nominated candidate Mostafizur Rahman Bhuiyan Dipu in Narayanganj-1 constituency has not yet started his formal mass contact. However, he has been carrying out extensive programs even before receiving the nomination. It is known that he will hold his formal election mass contact tomorrow, Friday, by visiting the grave of former Home Minister Matin Chowdhury.