Jubo League men asked to vacate billboards

Leaders of the Jubo League, the youth wing of ruling Awami League, have put up huge banners and occupy billboards at Paltan intersection promoting themselves in the name of marking its 42nd anniversary. The photo was taken November 10. Photo: Star

Jubo League Chairman Omar Faroque Chowdhury has instructed his party men to bring down all banners, vacating billboards in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country.

“The chairman also says sorry for occupying the billboards,” Anwarul Islam, a presidium member of Jubo League, youth front of the ruling Awami League, told The Daily Star online tonight.

Chowdhury however said his party colleagues had occupied the billboards due to a ban on wall writing and pasting posters on walls.

The Jubo League men had illegally occupied a large number of billboards owned by private companies in Dhaka and elsewhere of the country on the occasion of the youth front’s 42nd founding anniversary.