Later in the night, the former Awami League leader told bdnews24.com: “I haven’t joined any other party. I never left the Awami League, neither was I expelled.”A former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union or DUCSU and president of Bangladesh Chhatra League, Sultan Mansur had risen as high as to the position of organising secretary in the Awami League. Sultan won the Moulvibazar-2 seat, one of the eight won by the Oikya Front, in the Dec 30 parliamentary elections. The Awami League has formed government for the third consecutive term after winning 258 constituencies. “Despite great adversity, the people have elected us,” the former Awami League leader said.

Source: bd News24 January 28, 2019 21:00 UTC