Thakurgaon, Jan. 29 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said he has never treated politics as a source of income, revealing that he sold his ancestral property to finance his political activities.

"I am doing politics by selling my father's land and houses," he said while campaigning in Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila.

He explained that the land they have had belonged to his father, Chokha Mia (Mirza Ruhul Amin), but "more than half of it is gone; I have had to sell even the plot in front of the house," he added.

Mirza Fakhrul stressed that he has never been involved in corruption. "I have never earned money through politics. My wife and children have worked very hard to study and run the family."

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