In the fifth phase, election battle will be held in 29 municipalities today. Voters and candidates are worried about the festive election. Voting will be held on Sunday from 8 am to 4 pm.
In this phase, voting will be done in EVM in all the municipalities. Many candidates have also expressed fears of occupying the center.
There have also been allegations of intimidation of voters, agents and candidates. The EC has also instructed to abide by proper hygiene rules in this election. Hand washing is being arranged at the center before and after voting.
Besides, by-elections will be held in Comilla's Debidwar, Jhenaidah's Shailkupa, Faridpur's Madhukhali, Rajshahi's Paba Upazila for the post of chairman today.
Violence and disturbances have taken place in different areas in the four-phase vote, the fifth phase of the conflict-violence, the Secretary of the Election Commission (EC) thinks. Humayun Kabir Khandaker. Regarding the violence in the election, he said, wherever there is any kind of problem.
Action is being taken there. To die in election violence, it is certainly sad. However, we hope that such incidents will not happen again in the coming days. This is our hope. We wait and see. The secretary said by-elections will be held on Sunday in 29 municipalities and in four upazilas.
All measures have been taken to maintain a peaceful environment for these elections. We hope the election will be held in a free, fair, participatory and festive atmosphere. Has the environment been created for voters to come to the polls? To this question, he said, "We hope that environment has been created." Talked to Returning Officers. They said the situation is good.
This time in all the municipalities we are taking votes through EVM, so there is no issue of ballot paper tearing. This time the vote will be through EVM.
He said only by-elections will be held on Sunday. He said by-elections will be held in four upazilas on Sunday. These are: Shailkupa in Jhenaidah, Madhukhali in Faridpur, Paba in Rajshahi and Debidwar in Comilla.
The secretary said there will be 3-4 armed police in each center to prevent irregularities. There will be 11 to 13 members in each center including the affiliated Ansars. Apart from this, there will be a RAB team and a police team. Each center will have one executive magistrate.
The BGB and the RAW are based on the demand of the Returning Officer. In order to maintain law and order in the fifth phase of the election, there are 2,500 armed police, 1,250 Ansars (PC / APC) and 4,375 Ansars (with sticks).
Besides, there are 97 mobile forces and 29 striking forces. RAB's 100 mobile team. An average of two platoons of BGB have been deployed in each municipality. Executive and Judicial Magistrates are in the field. In this phase, 100 candidates are contesting for the post of mayor in 29 municipalities, 1,270 candidates in 291 general wards and 342 candidates in 97 reserved wards.
13 lakh 84 thousand 165 voters will exercise their voting right in 4 thousand 229 polling booths of 625 polling stations. Of these, 6 lakh 93 thousand 90 are male and 7 lakh 11 thousand 850 are female voters. According to the EC, the EC has announced the schedule of 31 municipalities for the fifth phase of elections. From the other stage, the fifth stage is added to the election of Syedpur municipality.
In the meanwhile, the elections of Dewanganj municipality of Jessore and Jamalpur got stuck due to legal complications. Apart from this, in Raozan municipality of Chittagong, candidates for all the posts including mayor and councilor were elected without contest, so there is no need to vote in this municipality.
In all, the vote will be taken in 29 municipalities. On the other hand, voting will be held again today in seven polling stations declared closed in some municipalities of the fourth phase. By-elections will be held today for the post of councilor of 31st general ward of Chittagong city and 8th general ward of Shailkupar, 8th general ward of Swarukathi and 6th general ward of Sirajganj municipality.
Besides, by-elections for various posts in 12 unions and by-elections for the post of No. 1 member of Rajbari Zila Parishad will be held today. EVM voting took place on December 28 in 24 municipalities of the first phase schedule. The second round of voting took place on January 16.
In the third phase, voting took place in 63 municipalities on January 30. In the fourth phase, voting took place in 55 municipalities on 14 February. Besides, in the fifth phase, voting will be held in 29 municipalities today. Voting is scheduled for April 11 in the sixth phase of 9 municipalities. According to the law, the municipality has to vote within 90 days before the expiration of the term.
After the amendment of the local government law, the first party symbol was voted in the municipality in 2015. Brahmanbaria: Two separate cases have been registered in connection with the cocktail attack on the election campaign camp and procession of Awami League mayoral candidate Nair Kabir in Brahmanbaria municipality. Besides, the district Awami League fears that 16 polling stations will be occupied in the Brahmanbaria municipality election.
Al Mamun Sarkar, general secretary of the district Awami League, lodged a written complaint with the district election officer and returning officer on Friday.
The wards are 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 19. Apart from wards 10 and 11, the police have identified other centers as more risky. Chittagong: Elections in Rangunia, Mirsarai and Bariarhat in Chittagong today.
In these three municipalities, there are more than one candidate in the voting festival. Earlier, a man was killed in an attack on councilor candidates in the recent Patia municipal elections in Chittagong.
