Staff Reporter: City Mayor Brandon M. Scott has finally decided to remove a street nameplate named after former President Ziaur Rahman in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The decision was taken by the city authorities at a virtual meeting last Thursday (September 9) following strong protests from the United States Awami League and the Awami family, a source in the United States Awami League said. After a long debate with the city mayor, the local BNP activists hoisted the nameplate on Saratoga Street in Baltimore, Maryland on June 20 this year.
Maryland BNP activist Khaja Mohammad Kajal has been at loggerheads with the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, for naming a street on Saratoga Street in Maryland after Ziaur Rahman. Leaders and activists of Awami League and Awami family living in the United States have been protesting since the nameplate of the road was erected in the name of Ziaur Rahman. City Mayor Brandon M. Scott sat down to ask for reasonable evidence and documents after filing a written complaint. After bringing these evidences from the country, he submitted them through application. At the same time more than five hundred people also signed it. After analyzing the various trials, the petitioner was given a virtual meeting with Awami League leader Engineer Mohammad Ali Siddiquee. Leaders, including an expert panel, presented their arguments on Thursday (September 9) and pledged to provide hardcopies of the Supreme Court’s verdict if necessary.
As a result, Mayor Brandon Scott made an immediate decision to remove the naming. It is said that the staff of the City Department of Transport has already left to remove the nameplate. It will be implemented very quickly.
Awami League leader Engineer Mohammad Ali Siddiqui was in charge of this process from the very beginning. Shamim Chowdhury assisted him, said. Pradeep Ranjan Kar, Advocate Shah Bakhtiyar, Manzur Chowdhury, MA Karim Jahangir, Sadekul Badruzzaman Panna, Sharif Kamrul Alam Hira, Jalal Uddin Jalil, Shahidul Islam, Rumana Akter, Faruk Hossain, Kaikobad Khan, Khandaker Zahidul Islam, Shahidul Islam , Siraj Sarkar, Ramesh Chandra Nath, Kazi Monir Hossain, Nazrul Islam, Mohammad T Mollah, etc. Former Justice of the Appellate Division Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, Professor Mohammad A. Arafat, Catalina Rodriguez and David Liam represented the mayor of Maryland City in today’s virtual meeting with the mayor of Maryland City.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, Hon’ble Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, Barrister Biplob Barua, Dr. Selim Mahmud, an official at the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, said that Brigadier General Habib, Dewan Ashraf, was grateful to Nur Elahi Minar, Press Minister of the Permanent Mission to New York.
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