Dhaka, March 31 -- An imam in Narayanganj Sadar has allegedly been threatened with dismissal by a local Jubo Dal leader for failing to mention BNP chief Khaleda Zia during the munajat, or supplication, at an Eid prayer congregation.

The incident occurred on Monday after the second Eid congregation at the Kashipur Central Eidgah in Fatullah, according to Mufti Muhammad Imdadul Haque, chief cleric of Anjubahar Jame Mosque.

Imdadul, who also serves as the publicity and dawah, or Islamic propagation, secretary for Islami Andolan Bangladesh's Narayanganj district committee, said he had led the second Eid congregation at the Eidgah.

After the prayers, he was allegedly confronted by Syed Hasan Iqbal, a former assistant secretary of Fatullah T...