Authorities suspend voting at five centres in Sylhet and Barisal after allegations of vote rigging and irregularities.
Voting has been suspended at a polling centre in Sylhet city for half an hour after Awami League men allegedly snatched ballot papers in presence of AL mayor candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at the centre.
Ruling Awami League HAS accused the BNP of pulling false complaints and trying to mar the city corporation elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal.
A clash breaks out between police and suspected BCL men when the latter were allegedly stuffing ballot boxes at a polling centre in Shahjalal Jamia Islamia Kamil Madrasah polling station in Sylhet.
Ariful Haque Chowdhury, BNP mayor candidate for Sylhet City Corporation elections, today said despite such wide-spread rigging he would not boycott the polls as he wants to "see the end of it."
Sylhet City Corporation Election-2018
Both Awami League and BNP mayor candidates have cast their votes in the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections.
Rajshahi City Corporation election 2018.
AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Awami League mayor candidate of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) elections, expresses a strong confidence that he would clinch a landslide victory against his rivals.
Barisal City Corporation election 2018.
Incidents of violence, widespread allegations of irregularities and boycotting stains the city corporation elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal.
Voting in Barisal, Sylhet and Rajshahi city corporations begins this morning with all the mayoral candidates except for the ones from the Awami League casting doubt about fair polls amid arrests and harassment of their supporters.
Watch the video to know about the top mayor runners in the Barisal City Corporation (BCC) elections scheduled to be held on July 30.
A show-cause has been issued to Awami League’s candidate for Barisal city Sadik Abdullah over flouting electoral conduct and electioneering during prohibition.
Preparations for holding the Sylhet City Corporation election tomorrow are nearly complete.
Watch the video to know about the mayor runners in the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) elections scheduled to be held on July 30.
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections will be held tomorrow (July 30). Watch the video to know about the mayor runners in the city polls.
Around 1,400 members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Ansar, Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and Special Branch of police have been deployed in Rajshahi to maintain law and order during the city corporation polls.
Defying a ban on their stay in the city corporation areas going to polls tomorrow, outsiders campaigned for the Awami League's mayoral candidates in the three cities on the last day of electioneering yesterday.
The electoral campaign in the three city corporations -- Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal -- is ending formally at midnight tonight.
Forty- four platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members are deployed in Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barisal ahead of the city corporation elections.
Ignoring warnings from the Election Commission, mayoral candidates in Monday's Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal city corporation elections continued to violate the electoral code of conducts with the electioneering ending this midnight.
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda turns down BNP’s demand for army deployment in the Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal City Corporation elections scheduled to be held on July 30.
Hours after three crude bombs exploded at a Chhatra Dal rally in Rajshahi city, visiting Election Commissioner Brigadier General (Retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury says the law and order situation in Rajshahi is normal.
Terming the recently held Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election "Khulna style", citizen's rights platform Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) apprehends that the three upcoming city polls in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal will be held in the similar fashion.
BNP announces their candidate choice for mayor positions to upcoming city corporation elections to Rajshahi and Barisal – to be held on July 30.
A total of 12 mayoral aspirants of the ruling Awami League collect nomination forms from the party President Sheikh Hasina's Dhanmondi office for the city corporation elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal, scheduled to be held on July 30.
BNP-led 20-party alliance has decided to give nomination to a single candidate for each of the upcoming city corporation elections in Barisal, Rajshahi and Sylhet.
The Election Commission yesterday announced mayoral polls in Rajshahi, Barisal, and Sylhet city corporations on July 30, creating the ground for another round of battle of ballots in the runup to the parliamentary elections likely in December.
According to the election schedule announced, the last date for filing nomination is June 28 and withdrawing July 9. Election Commission says the nominations will be scrutinised through July 1 and 2.
