District AL President and former lawmaker Abduj Jahur and acting general secretary Nurul Huda Mukut in a letter to the central committee on Friday requested for "immediate action" against Suranjit for his anti-party activities which "misled" the party rank and file and voters during the polls.

Copies of the letter were circulated among newsmen.

They said the party backed its former district general secretary Ayub Bakht Jaglu in the contest for the post of pourashava chairman.

The central committee also sent a three-member body to run the election in favour of Jaglu, they said. They stayed at Sunamganj during the polls.

But Suranjit campaigned for Mominul Moujdin and introduced him as an "AL nominee" at polls projection meetings though he (Moujdin) himself declared that he was a "nonpartisan candidate", the letter said.

Suranjit's role went against party interest and misguided party men as well as voters, they said.

The demand for action against Suranjit has fuelled the intra- party feud in the district, party insiders said. The two rival factions of the party in the district are led by stalwarts Abdus Samad Azad MP and Suranjit Sengupta.

Abdus Samad Azad threw his weight behind Jaglu, who lost the polls to Moujdin.

The insiders claimed that the demand for action against Suranjit was instigated by Abdus Samad Azad.

Once a JSD leader, Moujdin joined AL years ago, but remained off party activities due to the party feud, they said.

In the just concluded polls, Moujdin was re-elected chairman of Sumnamganj pourasabha for a third term.

According to unofficial results, Moujdin polled 11,450 votes against Jaglu's 9,244.

Four-party Alliance-backed candidate Advocate Humayun Kabir Jahanur, president of Sunamganj town BNP, got 1755 votes. Another candidate, Dewan Iskandar Raja Chowdhury, got 151 votes.