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AL discards fly off the handle

Star Report
Awami League's nomination of candidates in the upcoming parliamentary polls kicked up an uproar among grassroots leaders, activists and supporters in some constituencies, with protesters donning shrouds in the capital.
Aggrieved supporters of leaders who have not received nominations demonstrated outside party chief Sheikh Hasina's residence Sudha Sadan at Dhanmondi yesterday. They chanted slogans demanding cancellation of nominations ignoring the proposals from grassroots level party committees for the constituencies concerned.
Wearing shrouds, supporters of Dr Shamsul Haque
Bhuiyan, who has not been nomination for Chadpur-4 constituency, demonstrated there from morning till afternoon, demanding nomination for him.
Reports received from different districts said many grassroots leaders even resigned from their party posts protesting the party nominations.
Our Patuakahli correspondent reports: A number of leaders and activists of Galachipa unit of the AL and its wings submitted resignation to the president of the district AL, protesting nomination of Golam Mania Roni for Patuakhali-3 constituency.
In their resignation letters, they said the party selected its
candidate ignoring grassroots leaders proposal for nominal -ingAKM Jahangir Hossain.
In Chandpur. leaders and activists of the AL and its front organisations vandalised party’ offices protesting nomination of Shafiqur Rahman for Chandpur-4 constituency’.
They burnt an effigy of Shafiq, held rallies and formed human chain in the district town, demanding party’ ticket for Shamsul Haque Bhuiyan.
In Jhenidah, aggrieved leaders and activists of the party’ ransacked the district and Moheshpur upazila AL offices, and locked them up.
Police arrested five of the grassrrots leaders.
The demonstrators alleged that the AL leadership nominated candidates who are close to some party high-ups, and demanded re-considering the nominations
Reports from Rajshahi says hundreds of AL men held protest meetings formed human chain, and observed a token hunger. They deplored ignoring the grassroots' selection of candidates, and threatened to 'nominate'them.
In Dinajpur, thousands of protesters barricaded Dinajpur-Bochaganj road for hours demanding party ticket for Shatish Chandra Roy from Dinajpur-2 constituency.
In Noagoan, leaders of upazila AL yesterday declared the nominated candidate from Noagaon-4 constituency 'unwanted” and threatened to resign if the nomination is not changed.
A report from Bogra said AL leaders and activists formed human chain and observed token hunger strike protesting nomination of candidates for Bogra-2,3 and 5 constituencies ignoring the grassroots decisions.
Moreover, reports of similar protests were received from Sylhet, Mymensingh, Narail, Khulna, Satkhira, Pabna, Kushtia, Shairatpur and Nilphamari and some other districts