Awami League-backed candidate Rafiqul Islam wins the mayoral race in the Narayanganj’s Kanchan municipality election.
The country saw loss of 145 lives in violence throughout the six phases of partisan union parishad elections, a civil body platform says.
Two suspects in the killing of a newly elected UP chairman are killed in a “gunfight” with police in Joypurhat Sadar upazila. Both of them were allegedly involved with the murder of newly elected Badsha UP chairman AK Azad, police say.
Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) has been observing a 36-hour road and waterway blockade in Rangamati demanding reelection at a polling centre at Bhushanchhara union of Barkal upazila of the district.
A teenage boy is shot dead and two others are injured in a clash between supporters of an elected councillor and a defeated candidate of Munshiganj municipality elections.
Every month, a union parishad chairman gets only Tk 1,575 as honorarium from the government. He gets another Tk 2,000 from his UP. During his five-year-tenure, he would receive around Tk 2.14 lakh. He does not get any other pay and perks.
The Election Commission has passed the buck to the society by making a ridiculous claim that "social instability is one of the major causes" for the widespread violence in the just concluded union parishad polls.
The staggered union parishad elections, the deadliest in the country's electoral history, ended yesterday with four more lives lost in polls violence.
Social instability and rigid stances of union parishad polls candidates were responsible for the election violence, claimed Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday.
Though widespread violence and loss of dozens of lives marked the first two phases of union parishad polls, the Election Commission and the law enforcement agencies have praised each other for their respective roles.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed says the law enforcement agencies will remain alert to avoid any violence during the third phase of Union Parishad (UP) elections, scheduled to be held on April 23.
A local Awami League activist is killed and 20 others are injured in a clash between two rival groups of the ruling party at Choyaile in Jhenidah Sadar upazila over the fourth phase union parishad election.
The Election Commission has now made the media a whipping boy to counter widespread criticism for its failure to hold the Union Parishad elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner.
The BNP is most likely to stay in the Union Parishad polls, as senior party leaders are against quitting the race.
BNP claims the public boycotted the “farcical” union parishad elections and demanded a re-election in all those unions.
Man shot in Madaripur post-UP polls violence yesterday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
At least 58 people, including six women, were injured and 45 houses and shops, some of them belonging to Hindus, were vandalised
The BNP high command has lost interest in staying in the union parishad polls race due to “gross irregularities” in the first two phases
At least 35 people are injured in Brahmanbaria and Jhenidah while 15 houses are burnt in Natore in separate incidents of post-post violence, following yesterday's union parishad (UP) polls.
