Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Nawabganj upazila unit president, Azadul Islam Hye Pannu, has been missing since January 8 after he went out of home to go Rajshahi for personal work.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a statement issued on Saturday expressed deep concern over finding no trace of the BNP leader.
鈥楬is son Shihab Tamal filed a general diary with the Nawabganj police station, but he has not been found yet with the authorities claiming that they are looking for the missing BNP leader,鈥� said Fakhrul.
He requested the government and members of the law enforcement agencies to find him out and hand him over to his family.
Nawabganj police station officer-in-charge Md Mominul Islam said that they had sent a team to Rajshahi as part of an inquiry over Azadul as his son filed a general diary on January 10.
鈥榃e have heard that we went missing several times previously. We are trying to find him out,鈥� the OC said, adding that the BNP leader stayed at the Hotel Asia Residential on Station Road in Rajshahi from January 9 to January 12.
He said that they would send another team to investigate the matter.
According to the summary of the investigation report submitted to the officer-in-charge, the BNP leader stayed at the hotel till 9:00am on January 12 and his mobile phone was switched off.