Bogura Jamaat-e-Islami held an election workshop for its nominated candidates ahead of the upcoming local government elections, while Bogura Metropolitan Ulama Mashayekh Parishad organised a separate training meeting for its leaders on same day.
Metropolitan Jamaat organised the election workshop on Thursday at its office on Nawabbari Road in Bogura. Candidates for union parishad chairperson and member posts, as well as mayoral and councillor positions in the city corporation, took part in workshop ahead of upcoming Union Parishad and City Corporation elections..The programme was chaired by Principal Maulana Abidur Rahman Sohel, ameer of Bogura Metropolitan Jamaat.
Conducted by Assistant Secretary Advocate Al Amin, Workshop was addressed by Metropolitan Jamaat secretary and Bogura City Corporation mayor candidate Professor A.S.M. Abdul Malek, Bogura Sadar Upazila Parishad chairman candidate Azgar Ali, vice-chairman candidate Principal Iqbal Hossain, Shekherkola Union Parishad chairman candidate Maulana Abdul Baset, former councillor Ershadul Bari Ershad, Ruhul Quddus Dilu, councillor candidates Maulana Abdul Hamid and Selim Reza, Maulana Hedayetul Islam and Professor Abdus Salam Tuhin, among others.
Earlier in the morning, Bogura Metropolitan Ulama Mashayekh Parishad held a training meeting for its leaders at an auditorium on Nawabbari Road. Meeting was chaired by Dr Maulana Abu Saleh Mamun, acting president of the organisation. Professor Maulana Abdul Halim Beg, chairman of Talimul Quran Foundation, attended as the chief guest.
Among those who spoke were the organisation’s advisers Professor Maulana Abdur Razzaq, Dr Maulana Hedayetul Islam, as well as Maulana Abdus Salam Juktibadi, Maulana Mominul Islam Farhad, Maulana Azharul Islam, Maulana Ismail Hossain, Maulana Golam Azam, Maulana Abdul Wahab, Principal Maulana Imdadul Haque and Maulana Nasrul Bari, among others.