Jamaat leader joins procession backing NCP candidate Sarwar Tushar in Narsingdi-2
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Amzad Hossain publicly backed NCP candidate Sarwar Tushar in Narsingdi-2, aiming to clear voter confusion over alliance seat-sharing.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Amzad Hossain has expressed support for National Citizen Party (NCP) and 11-party alliance candidate Sarwar Tushar in the Narsingdi-2 constituency.
Yesterday (5 February), the Jamaat leader joined an election procession in favour of Sarwar Tushar's Shapla Koli electoral symbol.
The procession began from the local upazila Jamaat office and moved through Palash bus stand, Khanepur Bazar and the BIDC intersection before ending at Palash bus stand.
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Besides Amzad Hossain and Sarwar Tushar, leaders and activists from different levels of the 11-party alliance also took part in the procession.
Under the seat-sharing arrangement of the alliance, the Narsingdi-2 seat was allocated to the NCP.
Sources said Jamaat's nominated candidate failed to withdraw the nomination within the stipulated time, leading to some confusion among local voters. However, locals believe the confusion has now been resolved following Amzad Hossain's public endorsement of Sarwar Tushar
Earlier, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami applied to the Election Commission seeking exclusion of its electoral symbol, the Scales, from the ballot paper for the Narsingdi-2 constituency in the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election.
The request was made in a letter sent on 23 January to Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin.
In the letter, signed by Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar, the party said it had initially nominated its own candidate for the Narsingdi-2 seat in the national election scheduled for 12 February.
However, under the seat-sharing arrangement of the electoral alliance, the constituency was later allocated to NCP candidate Sarwar Tushar.
The letter said that as Jamaat's nominated candidate could not withdraw the nomination within the stipulated time, there remains a possibility that the party's symbol may appear on the ballot paper.
To avoid voter confusion and to uphold the political understanding, Jamaat requested that its symbol not be included on the ballot paper for the constituency.
