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Voting for 24 municipal elections ended. Voting continued from 8 am to 4 pm. The vote count continues now. Electronic voting machines (EVM) have been used in 24 municipalities.
Those involved in the election hope that it is not too late to know the results of who won the mayor’s office due to the EVM vote. However, it may be a bit late for councilors to get results. Initially, election officials said voter turnout was good in most municipalities.
There were no major unfavorable incidents in the 24 municipal elections. In isolation, there have been some disturbances in the center. The scrutineer’s car was vandalized in Panchagarh. There a policeman was injured. In Sitakunda Township, there was a disturbance in one of the centers at the beginning of the voting. Because of this, voting was closed for about 25 minutes.
Two independent candidates vying for the position of mayor of Chatmohar Township in Pabna withdrew from the elections around 12 noon. The BNP candidate in Shahjadpur from Sirajganj and the BNP candidate from Khulna have boycotted the polls on the grounds of irregularities.
Meanwhile, Prothom Alo’s own correspondent, Zaheer Raihan, was beaten while collecting news about the Dhamrai Township elections in Dhaka. The president himself was the cause of the incident.
Although the environment is peaceful, various complaints have been received from voters about voting in some municipalities. In particular, voters have complained that finger pressure was not reciprocated, queuing for a long time, forcing the ruling party mayoral candidate to vote, ship symbol badgers voting for mayor, giving voters no pay, enforcing the law by keeping quiet to maintain order.
The president took the phone from the journalist
Prothom Alo’s correspondent, Zaheer Raihan, was standing inside the polling station and witnessing irregularities and fraud. At one point he also took some pictures with his mobile phone. Azizul Haque, the president of the center, was enraged when he saw Zaheer taking pictures. He (Zahir Raihan) asked the journalist why he entered the center, who asked for permission, why he was taking pictures. At one point, he was forced to take Zaheer’s mobile phone by force. Guy also raised his hand.
At one stage of the crash, Zaheer’s right hand was bleeding. So he couldn’t keep the mobile phone. The president handed it over to a local Awami League worker in charge of the center. Then the worker erased all the images from the mobile phone. Then the presiding officer handed the mobile phone over to a police officer. The incident took place around 12 noon. The incident took place at the Collegiate School in the Hujeritola area of Dhamrai Township in Dhaka. Prothom Alo Savar’s own reporter Arup Roy took the bloody Zaheer to the hospital from there. After the initial treatment, Zaheer now stays in Dhamrai. The mobile phone was also recovered from the police.
Problems matching fingerprints
In Rajshahi’s Puthia Township, many voters, including candidates, were unable to cast their vote because their fingerprints did not match. The president asked them to vote again in the afternoon.
In this municipality consisting of nine districts, three people are electing for the office of mayor. The Awami League ship symbol candidate Rabiul Islam and BNP rice sheaf symbol candidate Al Mamun Khan cast their votes at the Gandgohali government primary school around 9:30 am. Independent candidate Golam Azam Nayan voted for the coconut tree symbol at Puthia Women’s College.
The Awami League candidates and independent candidates have expressed their satisfaction with the voting environment. But Al Mamun Khan, a candidate for the rice sheaf, complained that boat supporters at various centers wanted to evict their agents. Later he fixed it.
In the morning, several voters left the voting station of the municipality’s Gandgohali Government Primary School No. 2 and said that they could not cast their vote because their fingerprints did not match. The president asked them to return to the center after noon.
The voters of the center said. Delwar Hossain said he could not vote because his fingerprints did not match. It has no problem. When going to vote in the same center, you have to suffer in the symbol of the pomegranate of the 2nd candidate for councilor. Dulal Mia. He said he couldn’t vote because his fingerprints didn’t match. He is disappointed that he cannot vote as a candidate. “A lot more people couldn’t vote,” he said. Will they come to vote again?
Puthia Upazila Elections Officer. Zainul Abedin said that some voters were unable to cast their votes because fingerprints were not available at various centers. They have been asked to come around three o’clock. All of them will be voted on. No one will be left without voting.
Clashes at polling stations run by Khulna, police beatings
Clashes break out between supporters of two mayoral candidates at a polling station in the municipality of Chalna in Khulna. The police used batons to control the situation. The incident took place at Shishu Kanan pre-cadet school in District No. 8 of Chalna Township at around 11 a.m. on Monday.
According to the police and local sources, clashes broke out between supporters of the Awami League’s mayoral candidate Sanat Kumar Biswas and Jag Pratik’s independent candidate, Achintya Kumar Mandal. Later, when tension developed in the center, the police managed to control the situation by beating them with sticks. At that time, BCL leaders and activists at the local and district level were present.
According to some of the voters, one of the supporters of the jug symbol went to vote and was stopped by the agent of the pot symbol. If the voter comes out and complains out loud, trouble begins. Later it turned into a fight.
Sardar Ibrahim Hassan, the police officer in charge of the center, told Prothom Alo that the situation was brought under control by the police as soon as tension spread between the supporters of the two candidates. Now the atmosphere is peaceful.
Earlier, another confrontation between supporters of the two candidates broke out at Chalna MM College Center around 9.30 a.m.
Returning officer’s car vandalized in Panchagarh
District Elections Officer and Returning Officer in front of the Panchagarh Collection, Adarsh Shiksha Niketan Kendra, at 11am Monday. A group of criminals destroyed Alamgir’s car. A policeman named Rabiul Islam, who was in charge of his security, was injured.
Earlier, around 9 am, a fight broke out between BNP supporters and Awami League candidates outside the Panchagarh government girls’ high school in the city. The police, members of the BGB and the RAB led by the executive magistrate calmed the situation. However, in each center the presence of electoral agents of each candidate has been observed. Apart from this, there were sporadic persecutions at the New Basti Government Primary School Center, Nurun Ala Nur Kamil Madrasa Center and the Panchagarh Secondary School Center.
Electoral boycott of two independent candidates in Chatmohar, Pabna
Two hours after the polls started in the Chatmohar municipality of Pabna, two candidates called for a boycott of the polls on various charges, including the expulsion of officers from the center. They voted as independent candidates without getting nominated by the Awami League and BNP. The BNP candidate complained of irregularities in the electoral college but did not announce any decision to boycott the polls.
The two independent candidates who boycotted the vote are the current mayor and former deputy general secretary of the Upazila Awami League, Mirza Rezaul Karim, and the rebel BNP candidate, Abdul Mannan.
Among others, the candidate of the Awami League and president of the Upazila Awami League, Sakhoyat Hossain, and the candidate of the BNP, the Municipal Coordinator of the BNP, Md. Asaduzzaman.
Abdul Mannan announced his boycott at a press conference in front of the Sabuj Sangha Club in Chatmohar around 9am. His symbol was the mobile phone. Mirza Rezaul Karim announced the boycott at a press conference at his home in the municipality’s Chhota Shalikha Mahalla around 10 am. His symbol was the jug.
The two candidates alleged that Awami League agents and activists beat up other candidates’ agents after voting began in the morning. In addition, all the polling stations were busy. In the secret room of the EVM in the cockpit, the ship’s agents are forcing voters to vote on the ship after giving their fingerprints. It was not beneficial to inform the electoral authorities and the administration about the matter. As a result, they are forced to boycott the vote.
