Brahmanbaria Correspondent :
Awami League nominee in Nabinagar upazila parishad election who was defeated in polls that held on 31 st March filed a written appeal to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for re-election in 16 centres as major irregularities found proved in counting in ballot papers in the post of UZ chairman.
AL nominee Kazi Zahir Uddin Siddique submitted this appeal to the CEC Secretariat on Thursday afternoon.
According to the written complaint, a gross mistake in casting votes in 16 centres including Kaitola (South) and Shipur union has been detected where major dissimilarity in ballot papers between chairman and vice-chairman posts. A huge discrepancy was found in cancelled and counting votes in three posts. Besides, four thousand and five hundred sealed votes for boat symbol was shown cancelled illegally by local admin being influenced by local lawmaker.
In his complaint also stated, on the day of election, agents of boat symbol haven’t been permitted to enter to the polling centre forcefully and the rival groups forcefully sealed for symbol ‘Ink pot’. Conspiring by this way, administrative officials declared elected Md. Moniruzzaman Monir of Ink pot symbol in the early hours of April 1. As a result, his name has been asked not to publish as elected in the gazette, urged in the petition.
AL candidate Kazi Zahir Uddin Siddique said that four thousand and five hundred votes that was voted to me were destroyed intentionally by sealing. Finally, I was leading by four to five hundred votes but my confirmed victory has been snatched.
When contacted, Nabinagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Ranojit Roy said that whole complaints of AL candidate isn’t true. All the election functions are the duty of election commission. We have only performed the responsibility of protecting law and order.
Awami League nominee in Nabinagar upazila parishad election who was defeated in polls that held on 31 st March filed a written appeal to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for re-election in 16 centres as major irregularities found proved in counting in ballot papers in the post of UZ chairman.
AL nominee Kazi Zahir Uddin Siddique submitted this appeal to the CEC Secretariat on Thursday afternoon.
According to the written complaint, a gross mistake in casting votes in 16 centres including Kaitola (South) and Shipur union has been detected where major dissimilarity in ballot papers between chairman and vice-chairman posts. A huge discrepancy was found in cancelled and counting votes in three posts. Besides, four thousand and five hundred sealed votes for boat symbol was shown cancelled illegally by local admin being influenced by local lawmaker.
In his complaint also stated, on the day of election, agents of boat symbol haven’t been permitted to enter to the polling centre forcefully and the rival groups forcefully sealed for symbol ‘Ink pot’. Conspiring by this way, administrative officials declared elected Md. Moniruzzaman Monir of Ink pot symbol in the early hours of April 1. As a result, his name has been asked not to publish as elected in the gazette, urged in the petition.
AL candidate Kazi Zahir Uddin Siddique said that four thousand and five hundred votes that was voted to me were destroyed intentionally by sealing. Finally, I was leading by four to five hundred votes but my confirmed victory has been snatched.
When contacted, Nabinagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Ranojit Roy said that whole complaints of AL candidate isn’t true. All the election functions are the duty of election commission. We have only performed the responsibility of protecting law and order.
