Pirojpur-1 constituency

Grand alliance candidate engaged in robust campaigning

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Pirojpur

Only four days are left for campaigning before the next national polls slated for December 30.

Five candidates are contesting the election from the Pirojpur-1 constituency. Among them, only advocate SM Rezaul Karim, the Grand Alliance candidate, is campaigning hard. He is said to have a clean image and is taking part in the polls for the first time. AL candidates were elected five times from this seat. BNP, Jamaat and Jatiya Party candidates were also elected five times from here.  At present, there is an internal feud within the AL in this parliamentary seat. District AL president AKMA Awal, who is also the current lawmaker, had filed his nomination paper as an independent candidate, but later withdrew it.

Grand Alliance candidate SM Rezaul Karim has been working hard in his election campaigns. He is attending courtyard meetings and public meetings in various areas of the constituency.

He is believed to have been getting good response from the voters. He is showcasing the AL-led government’s development works across the country, including in the constituency.

Besides, he is visiting the houses of ill persons and also meeting the sick in hospitals. In this constituency, the Jatya Oikyafront candidate, Shamim Bin Sayedee, son of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who received the life sentence in the war crimes trial, could not be seen anywhere.  Even his posters and banners seem to be absent in the constituency.

Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate Md Nazrul Islam has extended his support to the AL candidate. However, Islami Andolon candidate Masum Billah is seen campaigning in the area. CPB candidate Dr Tapan Kumar Basu is not holding campaigns.

The Pirojpur-1 constituency comprises Pirojpur sadar, Nazirpur and Nesarabad upazilas. In the constituency, there are 209,049 male voters and 2,04,941 female voters.

Indian prisoner dies in jail

Our correspondent, Jashore

An Indian citizen accused in a gold smuggling case died of cardiac arrest at Jashore Central Jail on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Sanzid Bharma, 48, son of Mahindar Bharma of New Delhi.

Jailer Abu Taleb of Jashore Central Jail said Sanzid has been suffering from cardiac disease.

“When Sanzid felt chest pain around 2:00 pm on Tuesday, the jail authorities took him to Jashore General Hospital, but he died on the way to the hospital,” said the jailer.

On December 2, 2017, Benapole Port Police sent Sanzid to the central jail in the gold smuggling case.

Meanwhile, Indian authorities have been informed about his death, said the jailer.

Schoolboy’s body recovered

UNB, Netrakona

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from a paddy filed in Kadirpur village of Khaliajuri upazila on Tuesday night.

The deceased was identified as Gobinda Sarkar, 15, a ninth grader of Khaliajuri Pilot High School and son of Mantu Sarkar of the village.

Deceased’s father Mantu Sarkar said they spotted the body in a paddy field around 11 pm and informed it to police. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Netrokona Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Hazarat Ali, officer-in-charge of Khaliajuri Police Station.

3 held with yaba in Shibganj

BSS, Chapainawabganj

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three drug peddlers with 5,280 pieces of yaba tablets in two separate drives in Shibganj upazila of the district on Tuesday night.

RAB sources said the arrested person were identified as Abdul Karim, 21, son of Abdul Latif of Terapara village, Abdur Rahim, 25, son of Ismail Hossain of Namojagannathpur Charrasia village and Ataur Rahman, 25, son of Gias Uddin of Boglauri village all under Shibganj upazila of the district.