Dhaka, April 15 -- The Awami League has suspended Golam Kibria Boro Moni as its Tangail Municipality unit vice-president over rape allegations against the leader.The unit also recommended expelling him in a letter to party General Secretary Obaidul Quader before Eid-ul-Fitr. MA Rauf, general secretary of the unit, said on Monday that they were yet to receive any reply from Quader. The unit's President and Tangail Mayor SM Sirajul Haque and Rouf said in the letter that the rape case filed against Boro Moni at Turag Police Station in Dhaka on Mar 29 and subsequent media reports "heavily damaged" the party's image.

Boro Moni is the brother of Tangail-2 (Gopalpur-Bhuapur) MP Tanvir Hasan Soto Monir. Another woman in April last year accused B...