Re-voting in three Brahmanbaria-2 centres begins

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Brahmanbaria Correspondent
Published : 09:20, Jan 09, 2019 | Updated : 09:22, Jan 09, 2019

Voting at the centers of Ashuganj Upazila’s Jatrapur Government Primary School, Bahadurpur Government Primary School and Sohagpur South Government Primary School have continued from 8am.Re-voting in three election centres in Brahmanbaria-2 seat begins on Wednesday (Jan 9).
Voting at the centers of Ashuganj Upazila’s Jatrapur Government Primary School, Bahadurpur Government Primary School and Sohagpur South Government Primary School have continued from 8am.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission (EC) has completed all preparations to hold a fair and violence free polls in those centers.
District Returning Officer Hayat-Ud-Dowla Khan said, 'I have visited all the three voting centers. So far, voting is going on in a peaceful manner.
The number of voters is 10,574 votes in the three polling centres.
The Election Commission suspended voting at the centres due to polls-related violence and irregularities.
The 11th parliamentary election was held in 299 out of 300 constituencies on Dec 30.
BNP candidate Abdus Sattar with the ‘paddy sheaf’ symbol won 82,723 votes and his nearest rival independent candidate Md Moin Uddin with the ‘banana symbol’ bagged 72,564 votes, according to the results of the 129 centres.
Since the margin of votes between them is 10,159 — less than the total 10,574 votes under the three election centres, the Election Commission called for a re-voting.
In case of 100 percent turnout in the polling centres, BNP’s Sattar Bhuiyan needs 208 votes while Moin requires 10,367 votes to win the election.

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