ELECTION FEVER
Patuakhali: Youth jailed for 7 days for bribing voters
A mobile court on Tuesday sentenced a youth to seven days' imprisonment on charge of distributing money among the voters at Kalerpukur par area in the town, according to our correspondent.
The court also fined the convict, Doha, 25, of Kalerpukur par Tk 20,000, in default, he is suffer 45 days more in prison. A joint team of Rab and police arrested Doha while he was buying votes. The joint team also recovered Tk 9,000 from him.
Mobil court sources said Doha was buying votes for Obaidullah Nahid, a councillor candidate for ward no 2 in Patuakhali municipality. When Doha was giving money to an unidentified woman in front of a tea stall owned by Goni Mia, police and Rab team arrested him, sources added.
Meanwhile, forty-six candidates are contesting for mayoral posts in today's election to 10 municipalities of Patuakhali, Barguna and Bhola districts.
Of them, five mayoral candidates are in Patuakhali sadar and three in Kalapara municipalities under Patuakhali district, five in Barguna, six in Amtali, six in Patharghata and two in Betagi municipalities under Barguna district, four in Bhola, three in Daulatkhan, six in Borhanuddin and four in Lalmohan municipalities under Bhola district.
Chandpur: 5 mayor candidates pull out of race on last day
Five mayoral candidates in Chandpur municipality withdrew their nomination papers on Monday, the last date for withdrawal of candidature.
They are Akhter Hossain Majhee and advocate Iqbal-bin-Bashar of BNP, Abdul Latif Sheikh and SM Joynal Abedin of Jatiya Party, and Abdur Rahim Patwary of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Five councillor candidates also withdrew their candidature the same day. They are Shahnaz Rahman, Jaynal Abedin Bepary, Kamrul Hassan Bhuiyan, Abdur Rashid Khan and Khairul Islam Nayan.
After withdrawal of ten nominations, four candidates are now in the race for the mayoral post, 102 for councillor posts and 30 for women reserved seats.
Netrakona: Most polling centres in 5 municipalities risky
Intelligence agencies have identified 46 out 60 polling centers in five municipalities of Netrakona district as vulnerable to violence, special branch sources said.
Of them, 13 out of 24 are in Netrakona, eight out of nine in Kendua, all nine centers in Mohanganj, seven out of nine in Madan and all nine centers Durgapur municipalities, reports our correspondent.
As many as 20 mayor aspirants 180 councillor candidates, 53 women for the reserved seats are in the election race in the five municipalities.
Additional Police Superintendent Tutul Chakraborty said all necessary measures have been taken to ensure peaceful elections.
Meanwhile, mayoral and councillors candidate are going door to door to woo votes for them.
The workers of the candidate are also seeking votes for their candidates and distributing leaflets among the voters.
Nilphamari: One jailed for distributing leaflets
A mobile court convicted a man and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment for distributing leaflets against a mayor candidate during voting yesterday.
The convict was identified as Ali Hossain Sarker, 50, son of late Fahim Uddin of Sarkar Para in the town, reports UNB.
Police said they arrested Ali while he was distributing leaflets asking for not casting votes for Dewan Kamal Ahmed, a grand alliance backed mayor candidate, at Munshipara Primary School polling center in the morning.
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