Who are these independent candidates?
Noman Mosharef :
As Bangladesh enters a new era of democracy with the ruling party-endorsed independent candidates, who are most likely to form opposition, their identities have raised curiosity among people of the country.
To satisfy the curiosity of people The New Nation has delved deep into the identities of the AL independents, who are popularly called as dummies.
Barrister Syed Sayedul Huq Sumon, a known face on social media and former central leader of Jubo League defeated Md Mahbub Ali, State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism by some one lakh votes in Habiganj-4 (Madhabpur-Chunarughat) constituency.
Syed Sayedul Huq Sumon bagged 1,69,099 votes, while his nearest rival Mahbub Ali got 69,543 votes.
Independent candidate Yaqub Ali in Jashore-5 (Monirampur) constituency defeated State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharya. Yaqub Ali with ‘Eagle’ symbol bagged 77,468 votes while Swapan Bhattacharya got 72,332 votes.
Awami League candidates State Minister for Relief and Disaster Management Enamur Rahman also got defeated in Dhaka-19 seat (Savar and a portion of Amin Bazar) by MdSaiful Islam. Saiful is serving General secretary of Ashulia Thana Awami League unit.
Boat candidate KaziZafarullah got defeated to independent candidate MojiburRahman (Nixon Chowdhury) in Faridpur-4 (Bhanga, Sadarpur and Char Bhadrashan) for the third consecutive time.
Mojibur Rahman (Nixon Chowdhury) is presidium Member of Bangladesh AwamiJubo League. Awami League presidium member Kazi Zafar Ullah was the co-chairman of Awami League Election Supervision Committee.
Awami League’s cultural affairs secretary Asim Kumar Ukil MP got defeated in Netrakona-3 (Kendua-Atpara) constituency. He got defeated to his own party’s independent candidate former MP Iftikhar Uddin Talukder. Iftikhar Uddin bagged 76,803 votes while Asim Kumar Ukil got 74,550 votes.
Awami League candidate and present member of parliament Abdus Sobhan Mia (Golap) got defeated to independent candidate Tahmina Begum of Eagle symbol in Madaripur-3 (Sadar partial, Kalkini and Dasar) constituency. Tahmina got 96,633 votes while Golap received 61,971 votes. Golap is Awami League’s publicity and publication secretary.
Awami League candidate MrinalKanti Das got defeated in Munshiganj-3 (MunshiganjSadar-Gazaria) constituency. He is Awami League’s liberation war affairs secretary.
He got defeated to independent candidate Mohammad Faisal.
Awami League’s heavy weight candidate Dhirendra Debnath Shamvu got defeated in Barguna-1 constituency (Sadar-Amtali-Taltoli). He was three times’ elected MP. Independent candidate Golam Sarwar with ‘Eagle’ symbol defeated Shamvu this time.
Singer Mamtaz Begum got defeated in Manikganj-2 constituency by independent candidate Jahid Ahamed Tulu. She is an existing MP in this seat.
Habiganj-1 constituency’s Jatiya Party (JaPa) candidate was defeated by independent candidate former MP AmatulKibria Keya Chowdhury.
