Politics
DMP publishes list of roads to remained closed amid BCL Conference
Dhaka Suhrawardy Udyan is to remain closed on Tuesday due to the 30th national conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of ruling Bangladesh Awami League.
Roads around Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital city will remain closed on Tuesday (6 December) due to 30th national conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of ruling Bangladesh Awami League.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police said this on Monday, 5 December, adding that diversion will be placed in the area.
DMP’s Ramna traffic division said diversion will remain in place at Kataban crossing, Intercontinental Hotel crossing, Kakrail Mosque crossing, Kakrail Church crossing, UCBL crossing, High Court crossing, Doyel Chattar crossing, Dhaka University Medical Centre crossing, Jagannath Hall crossing, DU Sculpture crossing and VC’s residence crossing until the conference ends.
The diversion will be placed to avoid traffic congestion, DMP said.
Police have requested people to use different roads to move around the Suhrawardy Udyan.
The ruling Awami League has selected former Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as its candidate for the upcoming 12th national parliamentary election from the Narail-2 constituency. This decision was announced by Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader during a press briefing on Sunday.
Despite competition from 23 other leaders vying for the Awami League’s nomination in the Narail-2 constituency, the party opted to retain the incumbent MP, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, for the upcoming election.
The Awami League has selected cricketer Shakib Al Hasan as their candidate for the Magura-1 constituency in the upcoming 12th parliamentary election. This marks Shakib’s debut in parliamentary elections, and he is renowned as the world’s best all-rounder in ODIs.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader unveiled the party’s 300 parliamentary seat nominees at the central office on Bangabandhu Avenue. Shakib Al Hasan had previously obtained three nomination forms to contest in the 12th parliamentary election, covering Magura-1, Magura-2, and Dhaka-10, with his relatives collecting the forms from the AL central office.
On Thursday, November 23, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emphasized once again that both the BNP and Jamaat are attempting to disrupt the parliamentary elections set for January 7.
She issued a warning, stating that undesirable consequences would follow any attempts to sabotage the election, emphasizing the strength of her party lying in the people.
In her introductory speech at the Awami League’s Parliamentary Nomination Board meeting in Dhaka’s Tejgaon district office, Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the ruling Awami League, aimed to finalize the party’s candidates for the upcoming 12th parliamentary elections.
The meeting, which commenced at 10 am at the Dhaka district AL unit office in Tejgaon, focused on selecting candidates for Rajshahi, Khulna, and Rangpur divisions who aspire to represent the electoral symbol Boat in the upcoming national polls.
PM mentioned that the BNP-Jamaat alliance abstained from participating in the 2014 elections due to a lack of confidence in their potential success.
She also pointed out that despite attempts by BNP-Jamaat to criticize the 2018 elections, they failed to provide specific evidence of irregularities to substantiate their claims.
Expressing the Awami League’s commitment to democratic values, Sheikh Hasina asserted that political parties would be free to continue their activities in the country.
However, she recalled a lack of such freedom during BNP’s governance, noting that around 21,000 leaders and activists of the Awami League were killed across the country during that period.
