Senior AL leaders told this newspaper that the advertisement was published to clear confusion among the voters. Mentioning the names of those nominated by the party to contest the election for 41 ward councillors and 14 reserved seats for the women ward councillors, the advertisement was taken out on the first page of Daily Azadi, a local newspaper, on January 18. On behalf of the CCC Election Operation Committee-2021, AL presidium member Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Chattogram metropolitan AL General Secretary AJM Nasir Uddin jointly published the ad. Mosharraf is the chief coordinator and also the chairman of the committee while AJM Nasir is the member-secretary.