AL in dilemma over mayoral candidature for Rajshahi, Sylhet
Courtesy New Age 6/7/08 Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee
The Awami League is in a dilemma over nominating mayoral candidates for the Rajshahi and Sylhet city corporation polls as the party and the combine partners have more than one candidates for the posts.
The party along with the allies have already confirmed candidates for the mayoral posts for the
The polls to the four city corporations and nine municipalities are scheduled for August 4.
The Awami League on June 27 decided to contest the local government elections along with its alliance partners under banner of Nagarik Committee as the elections to the local bodies are non-partisan and the combine led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party decided to boycott the polls.
The Awami League is now in trouble in choosing mayoral candidates for Rajshahi and Sylhet as the combine have more than one candidates for the posts along with some rebel candidates.
Eighteen Awami League leaders have submitted nomination papers for the mayoral posts of four city corporations.
Four of them submitted nomination papers for the
Four of them submitted nominations for
The Awami League has already decided to give the combine ticket to Talukdar Abdul Khaleque for the
Three of the leaders submitted nominations for the Rajshahi mayoral post. They are city
Fazle Hossain Badsha, a member on the Workers Party politburo, also submitted nomination paper for the Rajshahi mayoral post.
The combine is in a dilemma in choosing one from among Liton and Badsha as its candidate for the position of the Rajshahi mayor.
Awami League leaders at its central working committee meeting on July 1 recommended that the high up in the party should nominate Liton as the candidate for the Rajshahi mayoral post.
The combine led by the Awami League earlier selected Badsha to contest the suspended January 22, 2007 national elections for the Rajshahi 2 (sadar) constituency when Liton was assured of being nominated as the mayoral candidate in Rajshahi.
Now Liton is laying his claim to the combine ticket for the mayoral post, but a meeting between the Awami League and the Workers Party on June 28 decided in principle to nominate Badsha as the mayoral candidate as he is a popular leader in the north.
The combine leaders will sit for talks in a few days to solve the matter as the alliance wants to keep united at any cost.
Seven Awami League leaders submitted nominations for the Sylhet mayoral post, making a win for the combine difficult with all the candidates remaining in the election fray.
The aspirants are detained mayor Badar Uddin Kamran, central Awami League advisory council member Dewan Farid Gazi, Sylhet district general secretary Iftekhar Hossain Shamim, city unit general secretary Mejbah Uddin Siraj, district unit vice-president Abduz Zahir Chowdhury Sufian, former lawmaker Enamul Haque Chowdhury and former upazila council chairman Babrul Hossain Babul.
If Karman’s nomination is not cancelled in scrutiny, scheduled during July 6–7, he will stand as the combine candidate for the mayoral post. But if Kamran becomes disqualified, the combine might nominate Babrul or Dewan for the post, party sources said.
The Awami League’s central working committee will resolve all the disputes over the mayoral candidature at a meeting which take place on July 12.
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