JP backs Hiron for BCC mayor

Jatiya Party (JP) of Ershad yesterday formally announced to back mayoral aspirant Shawkat Hossain Hiron in the June 15 Barisal City Corporation polls and urged its leaders, activists and supporters to vote for him.
At JP's divisional councillors' meeting in Barisal Club auditorium in Barisal city, JP leaders also held hands with Hiron and raised them as a symbol of their support and announced to introduce him to the party members.
Hiron, the outgoing mayor, was a former JP Barisal district unit joint secretary and JP Barisal city unit president before joining Awami League (AL) in 1996.
He is now the AL city unit president and is being backed by the ruling 14-party alliance and Sammilito Nagorik Committee, a citizens' committee.
JP Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Howladar said although local government elections were apolitical, JP, as part of the alliance, was backing Hiron.