Mass rally today, tomorrow

The Nagorik Committee will hold a mass rally for its candidate Awami League leader ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, the incumbent mayor, today.

"With this rally, we are going to start our campaign for Mohiuddin Chowdhury officially," said Jamshedul Alam Chowdhury, city AL leader and a commissioner candidate.

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The BNP-led four-party alliance, on the other hand, will hold another mass rally tomorrow to gear up election campaign for its candidate Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, state minister for civil aviation and tourism.

Health Minister Dr Khondkar Mosharraf and several BNP central leaders and ministers will address the rally, said Aminul Islam, political secretary to Mir Nasir, also a former mayor.

Meanwhile, two more aspirants for the mayoral post, 37 for ward commissioner posts and seven for the reserved seats collected nomination forms from the deputy election commissioner's office here yesterday.

With this, a total of eight people collected nomination forms for the mayoral posts.

They are Dilip Bhadra, Shahidul Islam Chowdhury, Saifuddin Ahmed, Quazi Nazmul Ahsan Selim, Mizanur Rahman, Md Ataullah Khan, engineer Azimul Haque and MA Salam.