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.
The ruling Awami League has claimed that the union parishad election was held in a free, spontaneous, and transparent manner while its political opponent BNP termed the polls “farcical under a partisan Election Commission”.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday claimed that the first phase of the union parishad polls was “acceptable” as voting was “peaceful” in most of the polling centres.
Widespread violence left at least 10 people dead and around a thousand others wounded in the first phase of union parishads elections yesterday. The festive mood of the polls to the lowest tier of local government was largely marred by electoral irregularities and incidents of clashes between supporters of rival candidates.
UP polls: 2 people have been killed when supporters of 2 member candidates attacked polls officials to snatch ballots in Teknaf upazia of Coxs Bazar, cops say.
An Awami League-backed candidate is arrested for allegedly snatching ballots in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh during the Union Parishad election.
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government held a farcical election “under a partisan election commission”.
Parliamentary opposition Jatiya Party files a complaint with the Election Commission dissatisfied with the voting at union parishad election.
The first phase of the Union Parishad (UP) elections begins, marking the start of the country's maiden UP-level polls on partisan lines. Two people are injured in Satkhira and voting remains suspended in 11 polling centres in Satkhira, Barisal and Patuakhali so far.
Two presiding officers are shot in Noakhali as reports of gunfire came from voting centres in Patuakhali and Satkhira during the first phase of union parishad elections.
Over 700 unions will go to polls today against the backdrop of the deadly violence during electioneering in the last couple of weeks.
