Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Thursday unveiled an additional 36 possible candidates-including four from Dhaka-to contest the upcoming national election.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the names at the party Chairperson’s Gulshan office in the afternoon.
“We are declaring another 36 seats today. Several remain-around 28-which will be finalized later. These include seats for our alliance partners as well as a few of our own that require further discussion. We will announce the remaining names at the appropriate time,” Fakhrul said.
The party, on November 3, published a list of 237 candidates for the election, and the following day suspended the nomination of Kamal Jaman Mollah for the Madaripur-1 constituency.
With Thursday’s announcement, the party has so far named candidates for 272 constituencies.
The newly announced nominees include:
Abdus Salam (Thakurgaon-2), AKM Kamruzzaman (Dinajpur-5), Zahidul Islam Dholu (Naogaon-5), Md Anwarul Islam (Natore-3), Selim Reza (Sirajganj-1), M Iqbal Hossain (Jashore-5), Monirul Islam (Narail-2), Amir Ejaz Khan (Khulna-1), Shahidul Alam Talukder (Patuakhali-2), Zainul Abedin (Barishal-3), Rafiqul Islam Jamal (Jhalakathi-1), Sultan Salah Uddin Tuku (Tangail-5), Abu Wahab Akhand Walid (Mymensingh-4), Mohammad Mazharul Islam (Kishoreganj-1), Sheikh Mojibur Rahman Iqbal (Kishoreganj-5), SA Jinnah Kabir (Manikganj-1), Md Kamruzzaman (Munshiganj-3), Hamidur Rahman (Dhaka-7), Habibur Rashid (Dhaka-9), Sheikh Robiul Alam (Dhaka-10), SM Jahangir Hossain (Dhaka-18), Md Mojibur Rahman (Gazipur-1), Md Harun-or-Rashid (Rajbari-2), Khandaker Nasirul Islam (Faridpur-1), Nadera Akhtar (Madaripur-1), Jahandar Ali Khan (Madaripur-2), Nasir Hossain Chowdhury (Sunamganj-2), Nurul Islam (Sunamganj-4), Ariful Haque Chowdhury (Sylhet-4), Reza Kibria (Habiganj-1), Selim Bhuiyan (Cumilla-2), Mostafa Kamal Pasha (Chattogram-3), Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury (Chattogram-6), Md Abu Sufian (Chattogram-9), Nazmul Mostafa Amin (Chattogram-15) and Alamgir Mahfuz Ullah Farid (Cox’s Bazar-2).
