Staff Reporter :
The removing of electoral materials, including posters and banners, in both Dhaka north and south city corporations may take three to ten days time, said DNCC and DSCC sources on Sunday.
They said posters would have to be removed with a view to restoring beauty of the capital city. The DCC polls were held on February 1.
The DNCC newly elected Mayor Atiqul Islam has pledged to remove all posters from areas under his jurisdiction as early as possible.
“We will work together to remove poster as early as possible. My supporters, our councillor candidates and their supporters, and also city AL followers and activists will remove these posters,” Atiqul said while speaking at a press briefing at his election campaign office in Dhaka’s Banani on Sunday.
“Paper and plastics from the posters will be separated and recycled,” he said.
While thanking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Atiqul also expressed his gratitude towards the AL election coordination team for the DNCC, led by senior party leader Tofail Ahmed.
He also thanked those who even did not vote for him.
Atiqul urged all the people of this city to love Dhaka as their own city.
Besides, Md Zahid Hossain, Chief Waste Management official of DSCC, said DSCC had started removing of the posters on Sunday and it would take eight to ten days as huge number of posters were displaying across the south city.
Earlier, seeking votes, candidates visually polluted the capital by pasting posters almost all walls, poles, threes and streets, Election Commission sources said.
Thousands of crore posters created visual pollution across the city as the candidates pasted them rampantly violating election rule on electrical poles, footbridges, boundaries and walls, they said.
