Staff Reporter
The ruling Awami League nominated Mayor candidate in the Narayanganj City Corporation polls Selina Hayat Ivy’s income is two times more than her main rival BNP candidate Sakhawat Hossain Khan, according to the affidavits they submitted to the presiding officer.
According to the affidavits, the former mayor Ivy now earns Tk 10.10 lakh annually, while Sakhawat’s income is Tk 5.20 lakh.
Sakhawat Hossain has shown him in the affidavit as a practicing lawyer of Narayanganj District Judge’s Court.
The elections will be held on December 22.
In total, Ivy has a little over Tk 40.20 lakh in cash, bank deposits, gold ornaments, electronics, furniture and family loans.
Besides these, she also owns one-eighth of a jointly owned 112-decimal non-arable land.
When she fought the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls five years ago, her total annual income was around Tk 10.65 lakh. She had Tk 10 lakh in bank and gold ornaments worth Tk 30,000 at that time.
Sakhawat has said in the affidavit that her wife and he have movable and immovable assets worth over Tk 90.70 lakh. He receives bank interests of Tk 3,801 as an annual income on Tk 5.20 lakh. His assets, including cash, vehicles, gold ornaments, electronics, furniture and business capital are worth around Tk 60.30 lakh. His wife has assets of over Tk 10.70 lakh.
The couple owns land worth around Tk 10.70 lakh in Narayanganj. Ivy, a vice-president of Narayanganj District Awami League, has no case against her. Sakhawat, who has come to the limelight for representing a plaintiff in court in the sensational seven-murder case, was accused in four cases.
He was acquitted in two of these cases. The trial of another one is underway while the investigation in other has not been completed yet. Fifty years old Ivy has two children. She holds MBBS and MD degrees and is a profession in the affidavit.
Her computer programmer husband Kazi Ahsan Hayat is working in New Zealand.
Ivy is the daughter of former Narayanganj municipality chairman Ali Ahmed Chunka.
She became the first female mayor of Bangladesh by defeating the BNP-Jamaat-backed candidate in Narayanganj municipality polls.
She won the election again in 2011 after Narayanganj was upgraded to a city corporation. She defeated AKM Shamim Osman, a local Awami League heavyweight who enjoyed support from local and central leaders.
According to Sakhawat’s affidavit, 46-year-old Sakhawat has BA and LLB degrees and a Vice-President of the BNP’s Narayanganj district unit, He is a former President of Narayanganj District Bar Council.
