Our Correspondent, Natore

Government officials have recovered a whopping five and a half tonnes of rice belong to vulnerable group development programme from the house of a local Awami League (AL) leader in Naogaon’s Raninagar upazila.

Ayat Ali, 60, a member of Kaligram union AL, is also a rice trader, said Al Mamun, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of the upazila.

Khandaker Makammam Mahmuda, upazila women’s affairs officer, came to know about the matter on Thursday when she was monitoring the distribution of VGD rice -- allotted for the ultra-poor women.

She immediately informed the matter to UNO Mamun, who then raided the house of the AL leader along with police and the local union parishad chairman and recovered the rice.

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