Awami League candidate Jahangir Alam and BNP candidate Hasan Uddin Sarker have cast their votes in Gazipur City Corporation election.
Hasan exercised his rights at 8:20am Tuesday at Bashiruddin Udayan Academy centre. This centre has 2,691 votes in total.
Alam along with his daughter went Kanaiya Government Primary School centre and cast his vote about 9:15.
After casting his franchise, he said, “I will accept the decision of people. I am mentally prepared for anything.”
He hoped that people in Gazipur would elect him to be the mayor of the city.
After casting his votes, Hasan said, “Yesterday night, I asked the chief election commissioner why my polling agents are being arrested even after instruction not to harass them. He said he would take action but, he did not.”
He alleged that “BNP polling agents were driven out from many centres and some are arrested by plain-cloth police. But, I will fight till the end. I am confident about my winning hundred percent.”
Meanwhile, Gazipur residents started to cast their franchises to elect the city mayor and councillors with all eyes on the central Bangladesh district.
Voting opened at 8am and ends on 4pm with a general holiday announced on Tuesday in the city.
A total of 345 candidates, including seven for mayoral post, 254 for councillor posts, 83 for reserved posts for women, are vying in the polls while 11,37,736 voters will exercise their franchises at 425 polling stations in 57 wards across the city corporation area.
The mayor candidates are ruling Awami League nominated Md Jahangir Alam, BNP nominated Hasan Uddin Sarker, Islami Oikkya Jote nominated Fazlur Rahman (Minar), Islami Andolan Bangladesh nominated Md Nasir Uddin, Bangladesh Islami Front nominated Md Jalal Uddin, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) nominated Md Ruhul Amin and independent candidate Farid Ahmed.