Chittagong Bureau :
Chittagong Metropolitan police Commissioner has urged the voters to exercise their franchise, promising to ensure hassle-free voting in the upcoming CCC polls.
Police Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mandal also warned against attempts to rig votes.Speaking to media persons on Thursday on the law and order situation ahead of the ensuing city polls, he said the city was “safe and we will make sure that voters can cast their votes in a cheerful environment on Apr 28, he said.
The polls are likely to be hotly contested between ruling Awami League and BNP-endorsed candidates.
The immediate past mayor, M Manzoor Alam, supported by the BNPled alliance , had defeated the Awami League-backed ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury by 95,000 votes in 2010 CCC pollThe BNP, which boycotted the 2014 parliamentary polls, hopes to repeat history.
Voting will take place at 719 polling centres in 41 Wards. Altogether 12 are in the fray for the mayor’s office and 276 others are fighting for councilors’ posts . If any candidate or his supporters think of snatching ballot boxes during, they’re living in a fool’s paradise,” the police commissioner said.
The BNP has been expressing fears of foul play by the ruling party-backed candidate and demanding army deployment a week before the polls to ensure ‘free and fair’ balloting/ Chittagong City is still safe,” the commissioner said. “Police are capable of providing security to the city and the polling stations.
Chittagong Metropolitan police Commissioner has urged the voters to exercise their franchise, promising to ensure hassle-free voting in the upcoming CCC polls.
Police Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mandal also warned against attempts to rig votes.Speaking to media persons on Thursday on the law and order situation ahead of the ensuing city polls, he said the city was “safe and we will make sure that voters can cast their votes in a cheerful environment on Apr 28, he said.
The polls are likely to be hotly contested between ruling Awami League and BNP-endorsed candidates.
The immediate past mayor, M Manzoor Alam, supported by the BNPled alliance , had defeated the Awami League-backed ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury by 95,000 votes in 2010 CCC pollThe BNP, which boycotted the 2014 parliamentary polls, hopes to repeat history.
Voting will take place at 719 polling centres in 41 Wards. Altogether 12 are in the fray for the mayor’s office and 276 others are fighting for councilors’ posts . If any candidate or his supporters think of snatching ballot boxes during, they’re living in a fool’s paradise,” the police commissioner said.
The BNP has been expressing fears of foul play by the ruling party-backed candidate and demanding army deployment a week before the polls to ensure ‘free and fair’ balloting/ Chittagong City is still safe,” the commissioner said. “Police are capable of providing security to the city and the polling stations.
