Municipality polls held peacefully: EC Sr Sec
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Senior Secretary Mohammad Alamgir today said the overall situation in
the 2nd phase municipality elections in the country was very good.
‘The poll was held peacefully as the voters exercised their
franchises peacefully. It has been possible to hold a beautiful
election with the cooperation of everyone including the law
enforcers,” he said.
city’s Agargaon area after the elections.
Alamgir said miscreants tried to snatch ballot papers at a center
in Boalmari municipality in Faridpur out of 60 municipalities. But
they could not take the ballot papers, he said, adding that the
presiding officer has postponed the polling at the polling station as
Clashes in Jhenidah and Rajshahi have already made people wary of the elections.
The Election Commission (EC) is using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in 29 municipalities and traditional ballot papers in 31.
The EC has been holding the polls in four phases due to the pandemic. Today s will be the second.
The main contest would presumably be between the Awami League and BNP nominees. Other political parties, including the Jatiya Party and Islami Andolan Bangladesh, are also participating in the polls.
EC Senior Secretary Mohammad Alamgir said the EC had taken measures to prevent violence during and after the polls. We asked law enforcers to maintain law and order and to take strict actions against miscreants, he told The Daily Star.