DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS Violence, rigging, boycott mar polls.
City polls in Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong were held on Tuesday amidst widespread stuffing and intimidation by ruling Awami League men, boycott by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidates .....
Many factors to influence port city polls.
Personal image of two main rival candidates Awami League-backed AJM Nasir and BNP-backed M Manjur Alam, advantage and disadvantage of Manjur’s incumbency and intra-party conflict may be the key factors in the election today’s election to Chittagong City Corporation.
DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS Polls today as tension runs high.
Dhaka South City, Dhaka North City and Chittagong are set to go to mayoral polls today in the backdrop of opposition BNP candidates expressing doubts whether the polling would be free and fair.
DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS, Cities await high-voltage polls Campaigns end, all set for vote tomorrow.
Electioneering for the polls to the three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong ended midnight past Sunday amid heightening tension as several mayoral and councillor candidates came under attacks again on Sunday.
Voters won’t respond to Khaleda’s call: Hasina.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday said that those who have humanity would not vote BNP and respond to any calls of its chairperson Khaleda Zia for what they did in 91 days in the name of movement.
Take ‘silent revenge’ on April 28: Khaleda.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday said despite extreme adversity, the party want to peacefully continue the battle for the city polls,
Another tremor hits Bangladesh, India, Nepal.
Aftershocks of the Saturday’s earthquake continued on Sunday as another tremor hit Dhaka and many parts of Bangladesh. The intensity of the quake could not be known immediately.
DMP imposes media restrictions at polling stations.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday asked journalists and election observers not to stay in a polling station for long and said that not more than five journalists would be allowed to visit a station together on the polling day.
Campaigns end midnight tonight City witnesses hectic electioneering.
Campaigns for the elections to three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be ending at midnight tonight with the opposition-backed candidates expressing doubts over fair elections.
Hasina, Khaleda convene news conference on Sunday.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, have convened press conferences on Sunday afternoon.
