Hero Alam to brief media over withdrawal of candidacy Sunday

Ashraful Hossain Alom, widely known as Hero Alom, will brief the media over his decision to withdraw candidacy from the 12th national parliamentary election.

He told Views Bangladesh that the press briefing will be held at Dhaka Reporters Unity at 11am on Sunday.

Asked why he took such a decision after regaining his candidacy just a few days ago, he replied: "I will explain everything tomorrow (Sunday)."

He announced his decision to withdraw his candidacy on his verified Facebook page late on Wednesday.

He will withdraw his candidacy on December 17, reads the post.

Hero Alom on November 30 confirmed he had submitted his nomination form to participate in the 12th national parliamentary election from Bogra-4 (Kahalu-Nandigram).

The returning officer for the area, Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam, cancelled his candidacy as he could not fill out the nomination form properly.

He appealed to the Election Commission on December 6 to get back his candidacy. Later. the commission on December 10 declared his candidacy valid.

regained his candidacy to contest in the 12th Jatiya Sangsad polls from the Bogura-4 constituency.