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Both alliances face trouble with cleared candidates

Rashidul Hasan
BNP and Awami League (AL)-led electoral alliances are again on the horns of a new dilemma as several of their past nominees, who had been rejected as parliamentary candidates by the Election Commission, were allowed to contest by the Supreme Court (SC) over the last few days.
The Election Commission (EC) so far allowed 21 previously rejected candidates to contest in the upcoming parliamentary race on orders from the SC.
Returning officers (RO), who had already completed on December 12 the allotment of electoral symbols to earlier confirmed candidates, once again had to allot symbols to some of the new candidates including AL's Principal Motiur Rahman in Mymensingh-4 and Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir in Chandpur-1, putting AL and its grand electoral alliance in the new dilemma there.
Activists, supporters and campaigners of both alliances are finding themselves confused due to the sudden new development in the electoral race, which is exceedingly veering towards divisions within both alliances, as the leaders are yet to make it clear to the campaigners who are really their nominees in the problem constituencies.
In some constituencies including in Moulvibazar-2 and 4, supporters of rival candidates from the grand alliance already engaged in clashes yesterday over claiming'real nominations'.
In Mymensingh-4 both Rawshan Ershad of Jatiya Party (JP) and just reinstated candidate Principal Motiur Rahman of AL, both are electioneering simultaneously giving rise to a real division among grand alliance supporters.
A similar situation might occur in Comilla-Il after IP's Kazi Zafar zXhrned gets his electoral symbol, where electioneering of grand alliance nominee Mujibul Haq Mujib is going on in full swing
The electoral landscape has changed in that constituency due to the SC order and political parties there are considering the issue seriously.
Both electoral alliances admitted that return into the race of some of their rejected nominees gave rise to fresh problems in their election campaigns.
The newly reinstated heavy weight candidates from BNP are Maj (retd) Manjur Kader in
Bhuiyan in Laxmipur-2, and Abdul Gafur Bhuiyan in Comilla-10, from AL Habibur Rahman Mollah in Dhaka-5, and from JP Fakir Ashraf in Netrakona-2 and Kazi Zafar Ahmed in Comilla-11.
BNP's Lutfozzaman Babar also became a new independent candidate in Netrakona-4, becoming a new headache for his party's alliance nominee there Lt Col (retd) Syed Ataul Haque.
Expressing deep concern and disappointment, JP Chairman HM Ershad told The Daily Star last night that the grand alliance might have to pay heavily for the latest division in the alliance.
"Nominees of Jatiya Party and Awami League are contesting against each other in 11 constituencies, which might end up handing over th e wins to BNP candidates," lamented Ershad.
AL must resolve the crisis as soon as possible 'since it is responsible for the creation of the dilemma’, Ershad noted.
"There is no doubt that we are facing fresh problems as some of our party leaders managed to get back into the election race," RA Ghani, a senior member of the BNP standing committee, told The Daily Star last night
"It's really a problem, our electioneering will face problems," Ghani said noting that there were only 9 days left till the election day, and party nominees are already campaigning in full swing
He also said they have yet to discuss the new development in the appropriate party forum.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka yesterday, and she might sit soon with party policy makers to work out a solution, he added.
HT Imam, co-chairman of AL election conducting committee told The Daily Star last night that they arc hopeful to