Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the party’s rebel candidates will not be given nominations in next elections.

Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Zahangir Alam, also the general secretary of Gazipur city Awami League, has been expelled from the party for his controversial comments on Bangabandhu and Liberation War martyrs.

Doctors are closely monitoring the health of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at the capital’s Evercare Hospital. They are monitoring her vital organs round the clock.

Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Zahangir Alam, also Gazipur Metropolitan Unit Awami League general secretary, was expelled from the ruling party today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is fighting for life at Evercare Hospital in the capital, said the party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid yesterday in the parliament protested the summoning of Prof Tasneem Siddiqui of Dhaka University before a parliamentary standing committee for publishing an article.

BNP will start a mass hunger strike this Saturday (November 20) -- demanding that the government allow party chief Khaleda Zia to go abroad for better medical treatment.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is suffering from chronic kidney and “decompensated liver” diseases along with other complications at city’s Evercare Hospital.

Former Vice President of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) and Member Secretary of Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad, Nurul Haque Nur, has alleged that he was attacked this morning while paying homage at Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani’s mausoleum in Tangail.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now under treatment at the Critical Care Unit of Evercare Hospital in the capital, has reportedly developed new health complications.

Family members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia have asked the government again to allow her to have advanced treatment abroad.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar proposed for a separate body to conduct the local government bodies election, terming the ongoing union parishad polls “bloodstained”.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was shifted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of Evercare Hospital in the capital yesterday.

Parliament today witnessed heated debates on a large number of chairman and members getting elected unopposed in the ongoing Union Parshad polls, and the hike in prices of diesel and kerosene.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was readmitted to Evercare Hospital yesterday for follow-up treatment, nearly a week after she was discharged from the same hospital.

Renewing the demand for holding the next national election under a non-party government, Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain said there was a possibility to revive Jatiya Oikyafront, an electoral alliance with BNP, to force the government to meet their demand.

The parliament will go into its 15th session this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that Tarique Rahman has been conspiring against Bangladesh while her government has taken the country, confronting all the plots, to a position that is drawing recognition and honour from the world.

Renewing the demand for holding the next national election under a non-party government, Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain said there is a possibility to revive Jatiya Oikyafront, an electoral alliance with BNP, to force the government to meet their demand.

Police today obstructed a BNP rally in Manikganj, protesting the price hike of daily necessities, fuel, and fertilizers, and bus fares.