Actor Sohel Rana floats new political party

Dhallywood actor, freedom fighter and politician Masud Parvez alias Sohel Rana has formed a new political organization called “Bangladesh Justice Party”.

The actor announced this after a meeting held at a hotel in Dhaka recently.

The 51-member committee of the new party will be announced by the end of this month or in the first week of November. 

The dove symbol of peace has been declared as the official symbol of the party.

During his student life, he was the president of the college Chhatra League while studying at Anandmohan College, Mymensingh.

In 1965 he was elected General Secretary of Greater Mymensingh Chhatra League, in 1966 Assistant General Secretary of East Pakistan Chhatra League and in 1968 as a member of the Executive Committee of the entire East Pakistan Chhatra League.

After the independence of the country in 1972 while studying in Dhaka University, Sohel Rana was elected VP of Iqbal Hall. In 2009, he joined the Jatiya Party as a member of the Presidium of the Jatiya Party and was appointed as an election advisor to the Chairman of the Jatiya Party and former President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

Veteran and acclaimed silver screen actor Sohail Rana entered the country's film industry in 1971 soon after independence by establishing Parvez Films as a producer. Under the banner of this production company, late filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam directed, Bangladesh's first full-length film ‘Ora Egaro Jon’ based on the Liberation War in 1972.