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Rajshahi 'landless' builds 2-storey house!

Wealthy leader took lease of govt plot meant for landless

Anwar Al.I, Rajshahi
An Awami League leader of Bagmara, who possesses two small industries and ancestral property, managed to get lease of a piece of government land (Khas land), depriving the genuine landless people.
Abdur Razzak, AL general secretary of Goaikandi union, obtained lease of a five-decimal plot of land for 99 years claiming himself landless and now constructing a two-storey building on it flouting the lease contract.
Locals said Razzak has long been trying to grab the land by living in a temporary house there. After Awami League came to power, he applied for a lease of the land.
The district administration approved his prayer
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last May following recommen-dations of the Upazila Committee for leasing khas lands, headed by the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO).
Razzak has now begun to erect a two-story building on the land. He allegedly forced a landless bicycle mechanic Govinda, who used to run his workshop at one corner, to leave the place or pay him Tk 50,000 as toll.
Govinda has been running the repair shop in a tin-shed facility for long. "How come the authorities sanction government land to the rich when we are the real landless people," he said.
Razzak inherits five bighas of land of his family and owns Mollah Food and Oil Ltd, an oilseed grinding mill and coowns Padma Agro and Fisheries Ltd, a fish feed factory. He also owns a motorised local vehicle.
Asked, Abdur Razzak said, "My father posses some land, not me. I am a genuine landless man and the chairman of the Upazila Bittoheen (have-nots) Samity."
He, however, admits owning industries, but denied the allegation of demanding toll from the bicycle repairman.
Asked how such an affluent person got lease of khas land meant for the landless, Bagmara Assistant Commissioner (AC) of land Abdur Rahim said Razzak must have hidden facts in his application.
The authorities leased out lands to a total of 23 landless
persons.
The union council chairman first recommended Razzak and then his application was forwarded by the upazila committee, said, tha AC land who is alscr the iriemr ber secretary of the body.
Bagmara UNO SM Nazim Uddin said, "The lease was approved prior to my joining here. We are investigating the matter to see if any irregularities occurred during sanctioning of the lands."
Contacted, Goalkandi Union Council Chairman Alamgir Hossain said he recommended Razzak, as the later does not have any land of his own. Hossain, however, remained silent when asked about Razzak's financial standing.