Nawab Ali Abbas independent candidate with Football symbol

Moulvibazar correspondent :

As the voting time approaches, the election field is getting more crowded. Every day, discussions are going on in tea shops in villages and towns about the symbols of the candidates. In this year’s 13th National Parliament election, Moulvibazar-2 Kulaura The popular symbol of football has once again become the center of discussion in the electoral arena of the constituency. Former three-time MP Nawab Ali Abbas Khan wants to surprise by scoring a victory ‘goal’ with this football symbol.

Earlier, in the 2001 parliamentary elections, after being denied the nomination of the BNP, MM Shaheen contested as an independent candidate with the football symbol. He won the seat of the then Awami League with more than 76,000 votes.

He came into the national spotlight by defeating Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed, the organizing secretary and former VP of DUCSU. At that time, the football symbol, including Kulaura, created a huge stir across the country.
Then, in the 2008 election, former MP MM Shaheen contested again with the football symbol. Although he was defeated, he retained the popularity of the football symbol by getting about 64,942 votes.

Since then, the football symbol has become a separate ‘craze’ in Kulaura. After a long 18 years, the voters of Kulaura have once again got the football symbol back in the national parliament elections. However, this time the candidate for the football symbol is the once popular

Leader and three-time former MP Nawab Ali Abbas Khan It is worth noting that Nawab was elected as a member of parliament three times from Moulvibazar-2 (Kulaura) constituency with the plough symbol in the 1988, 1991 and 2008 parliamentary elections.

Ali Abbas Khan He was known as a vanguard leader of the Jatiya Party. However, after the 2008 elections, he left Ershad’s Jatiya Party in 2014 and joined Kazi Jafar’s Jatiya Party. After that, he did not participate in the elections again. This time BNP The veteran politician, who was denied the alliance’s nomination, has become an independent candidate with the football symbol.

He hopes to make a big splash in the election field by using the popularity of the football symbol. Nawab Ali Abbas Khan said, “The people of Kulaura “I have been tested as a public representative. I have won the parliamentary elections three times and have played a huge role in the development of the parliament and the area. I want to use that old experience. This is the last election of my life.”

Shahjahan Chowdhury, a supporter of Nawab Ali Abbas Khan, said that by utilizing the votes of a section of the Awami League, the votes of tea workers, the votes of small ethnic groups, his own supporter group and the popularity of the football symbol, they are hopeful that he will win this year’s parliamentary elections. Independent candidate for the football symbol, Advocate Nawab Ali Abbas Khan, said, “I am a proven public representative to the people of Kulaura. I have been elected thrice.”