Dhaka, Oct. 9 -- Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded verifiable evidence after Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Administrator Safiqul Islam Khan alleged that a political leader backing auto-rickshaw drivers' demands owns 700 of the vehicles.

Jamaat said media reports suggested the administrator's remarks were aimed at its Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar, a former MP, and called them "fictitious, false, baseless and fabricated".

Shafiqul made the remark on Friday at a July-themed artwork programme on the metro rail pillars between Mirpur-12 and Agargaon.

He said a general secretary of a major political party had argued that the government should meet autorickshaw drivers' demands.

"That is a ridiculous statement. An investigation later ...