Staff Reporter :
The mayor by-election of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be held in the last week of February next year. The Election Commission on Sunday confirmed it.
“The Election Commission has taken the decision in a commission meeting held on Sunday,” said Election Commission Acting Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed to a group of journalists.
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda presided over the meeting in the Commission’s Agargaon Secretariat in the capital.
The election schedule will be announced in the second week of January, he added.
The mayor post of DNCC fell vacant with the death of Annisul Huq on November 30.
Elections will also pick-up 18 new councillors for 18 wards of both Dhaka North and Dhaka South each and Six women councillors in reserved seats of Dhaka North.
EC Acting Secretary also said that the updated voters list of the country will be published by 31 January next year.
