BNP picks Mayor Ariful for SCC polls

The BNP has kept trust in incumbent Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and nominated him to contest the Sylhet City Corporation polls scheduled to be held on July 30.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced his name at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office yesterday.

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He said the party's nomination board picked Ariful as their mayor runner in the Sylhet city polls.

The BNP leader added Ariful is also the candidate of the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

On Sunday, the party nominated incumbent mayor Moasaddek Hossain Bulbul as its mayoral candidate for Rajshahi and party leader Mujibur Rahman Sarwar for Barisal city polls, dropping current Mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal.

Earlier on June 20, BNP's nomination board interviewed 17 nomination aspirants at the party chairperson's Gulshan office to finalise the mayoral candidates to contest the three city polls.

BNP-backed candidates Bulbul, Ariful Haque and Ahsan Habib Kamal were all elected mayors in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal respectively in 2013.