Rezaul Karim Chowdhury wins Ctg mayoral polls
Awami League mayoral applicant M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury won a good landslide victory found in the Chattogram City Company (CCC) election on Wednesday.
In line with the election effects received out of 354 polling centres, out of total 735, Rezaul got 1,32,785 votes while BNP mayoral candidate Dr Shahadat Hossain bagged simply 17,290 votes.
Returning Officer (RO) Md Hasanuzzaman announced the results from the control place about the MA Aziz Stadium premises.
The difference of votes between your two mayoral applicants of the two key political parties was growing much larger with the election results via centres.
Among different mayoral candidates, Islami Andolon prospect Md Jannatul Islam acquired 962 votes while Bangladesh Islami Front applicant MA Matin 341 votes, Islamic Front Bangladesh prospect Muhammad Wahed Murad 175 votes, National People’s Party applicant Abul Mansur 1,001 votes and independent prospect Khokon Chowdhury 186 votes.
There are 19,38,706 voters -- 992,033 male and 946,670 female ones -- under 41 wards of the Chattogram City Corporation. The polling happened at 4,886 polling booths in 735 centres.
A complete of 5,902 presiding and assistant presiding officers and 10,261 polling officers were appointed for holding the election with EVMs.
Election Commission Senior Secretary Md Alamgir said that Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election happened in a peaceful approach except some stray incidents found in two centres.
“The election that we have observed in the media and the reports from our control room - I would say it was a good election,” he said while addressing a post-poll press conference at the EC in Dhaka.
“But in the two centres, some unruly persons completed an attack as they don’t prefer the voting through EVMs. The voting was postponed because EVMs were damaged there,”
“Voting was first held in an exceedingly nice way in the rest of the polling centres.”
A complete of 20,000 laws enforcers have been deployed to hold a tranquil election in Chattogram, he said.
Resources said several incidents of clashes occurred between supporters of prospects through the voting, leaving a youth dead and in least 50 others injured.
