Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has nominated its Dhaka north unit chief Md Selim Uddin as mayoral candidate of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) by-polls.
The decision was made during a executive committee meeting of the party on Wednesday, confirmed a Jamaat leader.
Selim was a president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the party's student front.
He was elected as the chief of Dhaka north after the Dhaka metropolitan unit of the party was divided into two parts in 2017.
The article was first published on Bangla Tribune