Supporters of several nomination aspirants of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday evening staged protests at places, including Chattogram, Madaripur and Meherpur, after the party announced its preliminary selection for 237 constituencies.
抖阴精品 staff correspondent from Chattogram reported that in Chattogram-4 constituency, agitated supporters of former BNP joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury blocked the Dhaka鈥揅hattogram Highway at about 7:00pm in protest over his exclusion from the party鈥檚 nomination list.
Sitakunda police station officer-in-charge Md Mojibur Rahman said that police were deployed at the scene and were attempting to disperse the demonstrators.
As of 10:30pm, when this report was filed, the blockade on the Dhaka鈥揅hattogram highway was still continuing.
Meanwhile, supporters of Sajjad Hossain alias Lavlu Siddiqui, a nomination-deprived aspirant for Madaripur-1 constituency, staged a protest by burning tires on the Dhaka鈥揃hanga Expressway.