Staff Reporter :
The ruling Awami League (AL)-backed mayoral candidate Dr Selina Hayat Ivy clinched a resounding victory again over the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate Shakhawat Hossain Khan in yesterday’s election to the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC).
In the prestigious battle of the ballot, Ivy bagged 174,602 votes while Shakhwat 96,700 votes at 174 centres in the NCC poll, Returning Officer Nuruzzaman Talukder unofficially confirmed the results.
A total of 273,500 voters out of 474,931 cast their votes to elect one mayor and 36 councillors in the NCC’s 27 wards. Of the voters, 241, 514 are males and 237,878 females. The voters franchised their voting rights at 1,304 booths under 174 polling centres. The percentage of vote was 58 percent.
The AL has finally stormed the citadel of the opposition BNP through a decisive victory for its candidate at the NCC mayoral ballot. It is the country’s first city corporation election that was held along the political party line. The NCC poll saw a good voters’ turnout.
The NCC Election was in a free, fair and peaceful manner as well as in festive mood. The voting began at 8:00am continued till at 4:00pm without any break.
In the first mayoral elections in 2011, Ivy ran and won against then AL-backed Shamim Osman by around one lakh votes as an independent candidate. The BNP-backed candidate Khandaker Taimur Alam had withdrawn at the eleventh hour.
Both the AL and BNP high commands desperately tried to secure a win in the NCC polls to revitalise their grassroots leaders and workers.
A total of 191 candidates contested for 37 posts and of them seven contenders were for the mayoral post and 156 contested in 27 wards while 38 are for nine women reserved seats.
The other mayoral party candidates are Islami Oikya Jote-backed Mufti Ezharul Islam with
“minar”, Mahbubur Rahman Ismail of Bangladesh Biplobi Workers Party with “spade”, Islami Andolon-backed Mufti Masum Billah with “hand fan”, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Kamal Pradhan with “umbrella” and Kalyan Party’s Rashed Ferdous with “wrist watch”.
The Kalyan Party and LDP candidates, however, announced their withdrawal from the race ahead of the polling.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Thursday said the election to NCC was held in a free and fair manner due to proper support of the candidates and their followers.
The CEC came up with the remark while addressing a post-election press conference at the Election Commission after the end of voting at 4:00pm.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in the city to ward off any untoward incident, he said, adding nine EC officials were sent to each ward to observe the election.
He said two major candidates AL-backed incumbent mayor Ivy Rahman and BNP-nominee Shakhawat Hossain Khan expressed their satisfaction over the polls environment.
Ivy and Shakhawat cast their votes at their respective voting centres.
Shakhawat cast his vote at Adrasha School of Jamatola area at about 8.20am.
Our Narayanganj Correspondent adds: Narayanganj’s police super Mainul Haq said law enforcement agencies brought the town under a security blanket calling in elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and coastguard alongside police to enforce a sharp vigil during the polling.
“No untoward incident took place in the NCC areas during the election time,” he added.
The ruling Awami League (AL)-backed mayoral candidate Dr Selina Hayat Ivy clinched a resounding victory again over the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate Shakhawat Hossain Khan in yesterday’s election to the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC).
In the prestigious battle of the ballot, Ivy bagged 174,602 votes while Shakhwat 96,700 votes at 174 centres in the NCC poll, Returning Officer Nuruzzaman Talukder unofficially confirmed the results.
A total of 273,500 voters out of 474,931 cast their votes to elect one mayor and 36 councillors in the NCC’s 27 wards. Of the voters, 241, 514 are males and 237,878 females. The voters franchised their voting rights at 1,304 booths under 174 polling centres. The percentage of vote was 58 percent.
The AL has finally stormed the citadel of the opposition BNP through a decisive victory for its candidate at the NCC mayoral ballot. It is the country’s first city corporation election that was held along the political party line. The NCC poll saw a good voters’ turnout.
The NCC Election was in a free, fair and peaceful manner as well as in festive mood. The voting began at 8:00am continued till at 4:00pm without any break.
In the first mayoral elections in 2011, Ivy ran and won against then AL-backed Shamim Osman by around one lakh votes as an independent candidate. The BNP-backed candidate Khandaker Taimur Alam had withdrawn at the eleventh hour.
Both the AL and BNP high commands desperately tried to secure a win in the NCC polls to revitalise their grassroots leaders and workers.
A total of 191 candidates contested for 37 posts and of them seven contenders were for the mayoral post and 156 contested in 27 wards while 38 are for nine women reserved seats.
The other mayoral party candidates are Islami Oikya Jote-backed Mufti Ezharul Islam with
“minar”, Mahbubur Rahman Ismail of Bangladesh Biplobi Workers Party with “spade”, Islami Andolon-backed Mufti Masum Billah with “hand fan”, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Kamal Pradhan with “umbrella” and Kalyan Party’s Rashed Ferdous with “wrist watch”.
The Kalyan Party and LDP candidates, however, announced their withdrawal from the race ahead of the polling.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Thursday said the election to NCC was held in a free and fair manner due to proper support of the candidates and their followers.
The CEC came up with the remark while addressing a post-election press conference at the Election Commission after the end of voting at 4:00pm.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in the city to ward off any untoward incident, he said, adding nine EC officials were sent to each ward to observe the election.
He said two major candidates AL-backed incumbent mayor Ivy Rahman and BNP-nominee Shakhawat Hossain Khan expressed their satisfaction over the polls environment.
Ivy and Shakhawat cast their votes at their respective voting centres.
Shakhawat cast his vote at Adrasha School of Jamatola area at about 8.20am.
Our Narayanganj Correspondent adds: Narayanganj’s police super Mainul Haq said law enforcement agencies brought the town under a security blanket calling in elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and coastguard alongside police to enforce a sharp vigil during the polling.
“No untoward incident took place in the NCC areas during the election time,” he added.
