Missing independent candidate in the by-polls to Brahmanbaria-2 Abu Asif Ahmed was traced in the city’s Bashundhara area five days after he went missing from his electoral area, police said on Thursday. Mohammad Shakawat Hossian, superintendent of police (SP) in the district, said they came to know about his whereabouts when they contacted victim’s wife Meherunnesa for their investigation over his disappearance on Thursday. “He (Asif) will be brought back from the capital and interrogated about his disappearance,” he said. Asif, who was expelled from the BNP for contesting in the election, went missing on January 27 after he had come out of his house for campaign. Read more: B’baria-2 by-polls: Wife submits application to find missing candidate Asif Later, his wife lodged a GD at the local police station in this connection while an application was also sent to the Chief Election Commissioner to find her missing husband on January 31. Asif is the former president of Ashuganj Upazila unit BNP and the former chairman of Upazila Parishad. In the Brahmanbaria-2 by-poll, he was the main opponent of the expelled leader of BNP and five-time Member of Parliament, Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan.