Papul’s Vacant Seat: AL nominates Nuruddin
Awami League yesterday nominated Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayan, the party's Laxmipur district unit general secretary, to contest the Laxmipur-2 by-election.
The ruling party picked the candidate at a meeting of its Local Government Nomination Board at the Gono Bhaban, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, in the chair.
The parliamentary seat (Laxmipur-2) was declared vacant after independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul was sentenced by a Kuwaiti court for a criminal offense.
The by-polls to Laxmipur-2 will be held on April 11.
The Parliament Secretariat on Monday issued a gazette notification declaring that the seat fell vacant on January 28.
According to the gazette, Papul is ineligible to remain an MP as he was sentenced by a Kuwaiti criminal court to four-year rigorous imprisonment on January 28.
Papul, now behind bars in Kuwait, was arrested in the Gulf country in June last year on charges of human trafficking, trading of residency visa and money laundering.
He was convicted by the Kuwaiti court in a bribery case.