All outsiders are instructed to leave the constituency by today (June 24) meaning all Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists who came from outside will have to leave from Gazipur.
The government has deployed huge number of law enforcing agency members to have violence free polls, confirmed returning officer Rakib Uddin Mondal.
“We have deployed 29 platoon BGB force, 57 RAB, 58 police team and 20 striking force team”, Mondol said.
“We have completed all the necessaries including giving training to about 9000 polling officials”, he added.
Law enforcers have identified 337 voting centres of 425 in Gazipur as risky. Which means, 79.25 percent voting centres are unsafe with only 88 centres deemed safe.
Administration feels that all centres, falling under the wards of AL candidate, Advocate Jahangir Alam, and BNP candidate, Hassan Uddin Sarkar, may be insecure. Gazipur police super made a list of these and sent them to returning officers.
It’s believed that in Gazipur, the number of risky centres has increased; in 2013, sixty percent centres were marker volatile and, this time, another nineteen percent has been added to the previous number.