BNP has chosen Ariful Haque Chowdhury, the current mayor of Sylhet, for running the mayoral race for Sylhet City Corporation polls scheduled to be held on July 30.

BNP senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the name at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka today.

BNP senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi speaks at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka on June 27, 2018. Photo: Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

On Sunday, the party nominated incumbent mayor Moasaddek Hossain Bulbul as its mayoral candidate for Rajshahi while party leader Mujibur Rahman Sarwar for Barishal city polls, dropping current mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal.

On June 20, BNP's nomination board took interviews of 17 party nomination aspirants at party chairperson's Gulshan office to finalise the party's mayoral candidates to contest the elections to the three city corporations.

BNP candidates Bulbul, and Ariful Haque and Ahsan Habib Kamal were elected mayors in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal city polls respectively in 2013.