Rumeen Farhana shrugs ‘twist of fate’ for not riding BNP wave

Rumeen Farhana, a recently expelled leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has filed her nomination for the Brahmanbaria-2 constituency as an independent candidate, expressing a sense of irony about her political fate.

During the scrutiny of nomination papers at the Brahmanbaria deputy commissioner’s office on Friday afternoon, she reflected on the current political landscape.

She noted that with the Awami League absent from the field, a strong wave of support for the BNP has emerged.

Rumeen described her position as an independent candidate in this climate as a “play of fate”, drawing parallels to her father’s experience in the 1973 elections.

At that time, despite a massive “Boat” (Awami League) wave, her father successfully contested as an independent.

The Brahmanbaria-2 seat, comprising Sairail, Ashuganj, and part of Bijoynagar, was allocated by the BNP to its alliance partner, Maulana Zunaid Al Habib, vice-president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Bangladesh’s central committee.

District Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Sharmin Akhter Jahan has declared the nominations of all 12 candidates in this constituency valid.