Deceased lawmaker's son Javed gets AL ticket

Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, son of recently deceased Awami League lawmaker Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, has won the AL nomination for the Chittagong-12 (Anwara-Paschim Patiya) by-election slated for January 17.
Party sources said seven persons from the ruling party applied for the nomination, while the AL parliamentary board chose Javed, a former president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry, at a meeting on Tuesday night, which was chaired by AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Moslem Uddin Ahmed, general secretary of Chittagong south district unit AL, yesterday said Javed was given nomination unanimously at the parliamentary board meeting.
Javed told The Daily Start last night that he was nominated by the party.
The Chittagong-12 constituency fell vacant after Akhtaruzzaman, also a presidium member of the AL, died on November 4.
One of the nomination seekers, Shahajada Mohiuddin, said party chief Sheikh Hasina had a meeting with the seven nomination aspirants on Tuesday, and she asked all to work for Javed to help him win the election.
Shahajada Mohiuddin was a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League.
The other nomination aspirants were Wasika Kaiser, a banker and daughter of late presidium member of the AL Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser; Abul Kalam Chowdhury, joint secretary of Chittagong south district unit AL; Shamsuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, former president of Anwara upazila AL; Abul Mansur Chowdhury, former general secretary of Anwara upazila AL; and Nurul Kaiyum Khan, a businessman involved with the AL.
The last dates for submission and withdrawal of nomination papers are December 20 and December 31 respectively.