Mongla Port municipality polls: AL campaigns in full swing, BNP claims obstruction
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Awami League leaders and activists have been working relentlessly to ensure win for the party s mayoral candidate Sheikh Abdur Rahman in the Mongla Port municipality polls otherwise considered as a BNP-dominated municipality.
Posters of the mayoral candidate with the boat symbol and festoons are seen all over the municipality, reports our Bagerhat correspondent.
The candidate and his supporters are visiting homes asking for votes and AL leaders and workers from outside the municipality have also joined them.
The BNP s nominated mayoral candidate Zulfiqar Ali, who is the incumbent mayor, said that if there is a neutral election and people can go to polling centres they will vote in favour of him.
Mongla Port set to get water treatment plant
A signboard at the construction site of the modern surface water treatment plant near Mongla Port. Photo: Collected Star Online Report Star Online Report
A modern surface water treatment plant is being constructed near Mongla Port at a cost of nearly Tk 25 crore to meet the demand for freshwater.
The demand for water at the port is about 3,000 tonnes with a supply of about 1,800 tonnes daily.
Once the plant becomes operational, it is expected to supply about 4,000 tonnes of water daily and meet the everyday demand for fresh water among ships, port offices, residential areas and various government and non-government organisations at the port and adjacent areas, reports our Bagerhat correspondent.