AL selects 'Jubo Dal man' as UP polls candidate in Patuakhali

Grassroots activists claim a local Jubo Dal member has been selected as the Awami League (AL) candidate for the next union parishad election in Patuakhali's Kalapara, reports bdnews24.com.

Local activists said Shahzada Parvez alias Tinu, a nominee of Dhankhali union council election, is a Jubo Dal member.

Tinu's father, Altaf Hossain, was a former president of the Dhankhali Ward-3 BNP.

Activists and supporters of the local AL have held a series of demonstrations to protest the nomination at the union, upazila and district level.

According to Dhankhali Jubo Dal President Sahin Molla, Tinu was a member of Union Jubo Dal Committee in 2004. He later went to Dhaka on business.

Tinu is listed as a member of the Ward-3 Jubo Dal Committee.

Patuakhali Jubo Dal Joint Convener Monirul Islam Liton said Tinu was an active member and his father was an influential local leader.

Md Riaz Uddin Talukder, youth and sports secretary of the union's AL, said grassroots leaders had voted 23-17 for him against Tinu, who had joined the local Swechchhasebok League.

Talukder claimed Tinu had been selected after paying money to district Swechchhasebok League General Secretary Ujjal Bose and Upazila Swechchhasebok League Chairman Firoz Sikdar.