Since the fall of the Awami League government, Wadud Boksh, chairman of the Hajipur Union Parishad of Kulaura Upazila, has not been available. Union residents are being deprived of civic services.

Meanwhile, as the chairman was absent from the office, angry students locked the chairman’s office. Earlier, local residents including anti-discrimination students held a human chain and protest march in the local Katarkona market on August 18 to demand the resignation of Chairman Wadud Boksh.

They submitted a memorandum to the Upazila Nirbahi Officer with public signatures demanding his removal due to various irregularities, corruption, looting, misappropriation of government project money and misconduct. Then on August 20, the anti-discrimination students held a press conference demanding the resignation of the chairman. They announced in a press conference and surrounded the UP office last Wednesday and locked the chairman’s office.

The secretary is working in the office. As the chairman was not there, the service seekers expressed their anger by waiting for a long time in front of his office. Union resident Phul Miah, Md., came to take the citizenship certificate. Ershad Ali, Surman Ahmed, Moshahid Ali, Yachmin Akhtar Sumaiya, Javed Mia, Sahena Akhtar.

All of them expressed their anger and said that the Awami League’s clothed chairman did not come to the office to cover up his misdeeds. He cannot be found in the chairman’s office, house or mobile phone to sign the certificate.

Secretary of Hajipur Union Parishad. Tajul Islam said, “Chairman Wadud Boksh did not work for a single day after last August 5. Angry students locked his room. I don’t know why he is not coming to office.

Meanwhile, on Saturday (August 24), upazila Awami League president Rafiqul Islam Renu, newly elected municipal mayor Sipar Uddin Ahmed, Hajipur Union Parishad chairman Wadud Boksh and 20 other members of Kadipur Union Parishad (UP) and one of the coordinators of the student movement, Abul Fattah Fahim , filed a case at Kulaura police station.