Sylhet, Sept. 15 -- The Sylhet city unit of BNP boycotted the civic reception hosted by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) in honour of President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in Sylhet on Tuesday.

Emdad Hossain Chowdhury, general secretary of the unit, said BNP and its affiliated organisations under the unit decided to boycott the programme over what he described as the organisers' "arbitrary conduct" and the failure to form a proper citizens' committee for the reception.

Nasim Hossain, president of the unit BNP, said no leaders or activists from the unit attended the event.

Party leaders said they welcomed the President's visit to Sylhet and took part in welcoming him at different points in the city, but decided not to attend the main r...