LALMONIRHAT: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) expelled its Lalmonirhat unit Organising secretary Rokon Udddin Babul, also a rebel candidate in the fourth phase upazila polls, for violating party decision.

The district committee has already received the letter of expulsion, signed by BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday night.

District BNP general secretary Hafizur Rahman Babla told banglanews that Rokon Udddin has been contesting for the chairman post as a rebel candidate in Kaliganj upazilla defying the party’s decision.

That’s why, disciplinary action has been taken against the leader, Rizvi added.

BDST: 1048 HRS, MAR 21, 2014