Gazipur city polls 2018

DB picked up BNP leader Mizan from Gulshan home

Detectives claims to have picked up BNP’s national executive committee member Maj (Retd) Mizanur Rahman up from his Gulshan residence in Dhaka in the wee hours of today.

Fair voting going on: AL mayor runner

Awami League mayor candidate Jahangir Alam believes that voting for Gazipur City Corporation is underway in a free and fair fashion.

GCC polls: Voter lists snatched, BNP alleges

Agents and supporters of BNP mayor candidate in the Madinatul Ulum Senior Madrassa polling centre at Gazipur Sadar upazila allege that all their voter lists have been snatched by the Awami League mayor candidate’s supporters.

AL’s Jahangir Alam elected Gazipur mayor

Awami League nominated candidate Md Jahangir Alam is elected mayor in Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections today defeating his rival BNP contender Hasan Uddin Sarker by a big margin.

Gazipur City Polls / Tough action against rule breakers: CEC

Mayor and ward councillor candidates of Gazipur city polls yesterday demanded that law and order be maintained centring the elections so that people could vote in a festive mood and without intimidation.

Gazipur City Polls: AL, BNP step up campaign

Ignoring heavy showers, mayoral candidates of the Awami League and the BNP yesterday campaigned to woo voters in Gazipur City Corporation polls scheduled to be held on June 26.

Gazipur City Polls: AL focuses on mending infighting

With the campaigns for the Gazipur city polls resuming yesterday, the ruling Awami League wants to focus on resolving internal divisions as the party leaders say it's the organisational unity that earned them victory in Khulna.

Gazipur City Polls: BNP to keep close watch

The BNP will keep a close eye on the Gazipur city polling stations the night before the voting day and try to assemble party men outside to guard the centres during polling as part of its new strategy for the June 26 mayoral polls.

Gazipur City Corporation: SC lifts stay; polls by June 28

Electioneering for the postponed prestigious battle of ballots in Gazipur City Corporation is now set to resume after the Eid-ul-Fitr with the voting to be held any day in the last week of next month.

May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018

Polls festivity gives way to frustration

The election fever that gripped the Gazipur city is gone.

May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018

SC verdicts hold hope for polls

Some previous verdicts of the Supreme Court about disputes over elections now offer the Election Commission strong legal grounds to have the stay orders on Gazipur and Dhaka north city mayoral polls vacated.

May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018

The man behind GCC polls stay

It was quite a surprise for everyone when TV channels yesterday broke the news that Gazipur city polls had been stayed for three months.

May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018

3-month stay on Gazipur city polls

Just 10 days before the voting day, the High Court yesterday stayed the Gazipur City Corporation election for three months with the Election Commission entirely in the dark about the development.

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