A Kuwait expatriate and also an Awami League supporter was killed allegedly by BNP men while distributing leaflets in favour of ruling party-backed candidate in Sylhet Sadar upazila on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Koysor, son of Mahbub Ali of Nalkhot village under Kandigaon union. Family claimed that Koysor went to the house of Tarique Ullah, a BNP supporter, in the evening for running campaign for AL candidate for the Sylhet-1. During distributing leaflets, he engaged in altercation with some BNP men of the house and at one stage they attacked Koysor, leaving him dead on the spot. However, villagers claimed that Koysor engaged in altercation with Tarique Ullah, Barik Ullah centring a cow that went on missing recently and being injured by the opponents, he died on the scene. Contacted, Jalalabad Police Station officer-in-charge Shah Harunur Rashid said police are investigating the matter. MHK

Senior officers of Election Commission including its Commissioners and Secretary are in threat centering the eleventh national parliament election. Threats are being given by sending short messages through mobile phones to the senior officers. They are getting such messages for the last several days. EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to Rtv online on Friday night. He said, I am informed about the matter. For this reason four tier security measures have been taken from today. The message sent from the number 01880908730 said- Allahu Akbar. Stop this illegal (kufri) election or be prepared for dangerous consequences by the mujahedins. We are ready to blow up the Election Commission at any moment. Insha Ahhalh @ Mujahedins. Meanwhile Election Commission officers said, panic is prevailing among many people following the threat. So Election Commission has asked law enforcement agencies to take appropriate measures. The Election Commission and Commission secretariat are situated at Agargaon in the capital. It is the first incident of threatening to blow up the Election Commission. Earlier in the tenth general election cocktails were hurled at the EC premises and the homes of the Election Commissioners. Mentionable, the eleventh national parliament election will be held on December 30. Total 39 registered political parties are taking part in the election. Arch rivals Awami League and BNP are going to face each other after 10 years. Both the parties are contesting under alliances. More than 1800 candidates are contesting in the election. Of them around 50 are independent candidates and the rest are candidates of different political parties. More than 6 lakh 8 thousand members of different forces like army, BGB, RAB and police were deployed for the security of peaceful voting. AH   

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained one businessman from Motijheel area in the capital over allegation of influencing the coming election by spreading crores of cash. RAB headquarters Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman delivered the information to the media. Mizanur Rahman said, the detained person named Ali Haider is the managing director of United Corporation, an export-import and contractor company. RAB detained him from his office situated on 27th floor of City Center at Motijheel at around 11 am on Tuesday. Two more people named Alamgir Hossain (38) and Joynal Abedin (45) were also held. RAB said, nearly eight crore taka cash and cheques worth ten crore taka were recovered from Ali Haider. But RAB did not deliver the detail information to whom or which party he was working for. But leaflet of a BNP leader attached with Tarique Rahman’s photograph was found with the recovered money. Besides, a list containing names and address of voters of a constituency of Dhaka was found at the office of Ali Haider. Earlier, police arrested two persons named Shahidul Islam and Muhit from Rajarbag area in the capital over allegation of spreading money among voters on Monday morning. AH 

Three people were arrested from Shyamoli area under Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in the city for allegedly spreading propaganda against the state on various social networking sites, including Facebook. The arrestees are Wahidun Nabi, 47, Arafat Hakim, 38, and Mohammad Zavid, 45. Two lawsuits were filed against them with three police stations under the Digital Security Act and the ICT Act for carrying out various subversive plans against the state.   MHK

A group of unidentified miscreants made attacked on the motorcade of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at Danarhat in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila on Tuesday noon, claimed BNP leaders. The incident took place when Fakhrul was running polls campaign in the area at 12 noon. Thakurgaon Sadar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mostafizur Rahman said they have heard that two or three cars were vandalized in Danarhat area of Begunbari union by some unruly people. “We are investigating the vandalism incident seriously,” he added. Contacted, district BNP president Taimur Rahman complained that the attack was carried out at his car when Fakhrul was conducting polls campaign in the area. “Fakhrul was conducting election road shows in the area. At that time, a group of people made attack on the motorcade and broke glasses of two or three cars,” he said. Taimur, however, could not name the attackers. Mirza Fakhrul is contesting the eleventh general polls slated for December 30 from Thakurgaon-1 and Bogura-6 constituencies. MHK