BNP leaders Asaduzzaman Ripon, Tabith Awal and Ishrak Hossain today collected nomination papers of the party to contest mayoral posts in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.
Ripon and Tabith collected nomination papers for Dhaka North City Corporation polls while Ishrak for south, Sayrul Kabir Khan, a staff of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s media wing told The Daily Star.
The BNP aspirants collected the nomination papers from party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at its Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka this afternoon, he said.
Asaduzzaman Ripon, former president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, is now acting as a special secretary of BNP while Tabith Awal is a member of the party’s national executive committee.
Besides, Ishrak Hossain is elder son of recently late BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka who was the last mayor of the undivided Dhaka City Corporation.
