The split in the pro-BNP vote bank because of the party's two expelled leaders running for mayor was a big advantage for the ruling Awami League candidate in the Cumilla City Corporation election.
All mayoral and councillor candidates in the Cumilla city polls made their last-minute efforts to woo the voters yesterday as the campaigning ended midnight last night.
Withstanding the test of time
Storied history of Shaheed Minar at Cumilla Victoria College
The Shaheed Minar at the government college stands in defiant pride, after being demolished and rebuilt a number of times. Photo: Star
For the unassuming, Cumilla Victoria Govt College s Shaheed Minar may seem like a customary tribute to the Language Movement. That the monument itself has been a battleground between the region s people and the then East Pakistan administration is thus a history worth retelling.
It s a history that ran for quite a long time too from February 21, 1953 all the way up to 1962, and then again during the Liberation War. In this time, the site has seen quite a few iterations.