Online Desk: The High Court on Monday rejected the writ petition of Md Jahangir Alam to get his candidature for Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayoral election back. Now. he will not be able to be the candidate in the upcoming GCC election.

The bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam passed the order during initial hearing of the writ. On Sunday, suspended mayoral candidate Jahangir Alam filed the writ challenging the decision of his nomination cancellation.

On April 30, GCC election returning officer Faridul Islam cancelled nomination paper of much-talked about candidate Jahangir Alam over loan default. After that, Dhaka divisional commissioner Md Sabirul Islam rejected the appeal of Jahangir Alam upholding the Returning Officer’s decision.

Jahangir’s mother Jayeda Khatun is still on the election field as her nomination was found valid.