-2013.jpg)
With only five days to go, the Election Commission (EC) and mayoral and
councillor aspirants in four divisional city corporations are making
final preparations for elections.
The electoral campaigns end 48 hours before the polling starts at 8:00am on June 15, and any sort of campaign activity after then would be a considered violation of electoral code of conduct.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed yesterday asked the local administration and others concerned to carry out their duties impartially for holding free, fair and credible elections.
“We have taken adequate steps to hold city corporation elections in a free, fair and credible manner,” he said.
The CEC was speaking at a view-exchange meeting with mayoral and councillor candidates at the Khulna deputy commissioner’s office.
Urging the candidates not to take the law in their own hands, he said they had deployed 15 vigilance teams to monitor whether electoral code was being violated in the city corporation areas, reports our Khulna correspondent.
The executive magistrate would take legal action, if any candidate violates the code of conduct, the CEC said.
Three more vigilance teams comprised of Judicial magistrates and adequate number of BGB, Rab and other security agency personnel would be deployed before the Khulna City Corporation polls, he added.
Meanwhile, the Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) had transferred officers-in charge (OC) of five police stations on Saturday evening. They would join their new offices by June 10, said KMP Commissioner Shafiqur Rahman.
Pointing to the reshuffle, BNP-backed mayoral candidate Moniruzzaman Mony told the meeting the transfer was not enough for holding a credible election. “We want all politicised officers in KMP to get transferred,” he added.
Expressing satisfaction over law and order situation in the district, Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque said only 17 days for campaign were not enough for a mayoral candidate.
To ensure a free and fair poll, the EC was conducting training programmes for the candidates and election officials in the city corporation areas.
At Madan Mohan College in Sylhet, the commission ended its two-day training on electoral rules for 2,811 officials.
Yesterday, election officials held a mock voting through electronic voting machines (EVM) at three centres of ward no. 2 in Sylhet city while thousands gathered at ward no. 8 in Rajshahi city as the regional election office held trial voting there using EVMs.
Law enforcement agencies have already set up several checkpoints in the four cities on security grounds.
Candidates who have been conducting door-to-door electoral campaign for more than two weeks were revving up their campaign activities yesterday as the time was running out fast.
The electoral campaigns end 48 hours before the polling starts at 8:00am on June 15, and any sort of campaign activity after then would be a considered violation of electoral code of conduct.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed yesterday asked the local administration and others concerned to carry out their duties impartially for holding free, fair and credible elections.
“We have taken adequate steps to hold city corporation elections in a free, fair and credible manner,” he said.
The CEC was speaking at a view-exchange meeting with mayoral and councillor candidates at the Khulna deputy commissioner’s office.
Urging the candidates not to take the law in their own hands, he said they had deployed 15 vigilance teams to monitor whether electoral code was being violated in the city corporation areas, reports our Khulna correspondent.
The executive magistrate would take legal action, if any candidate violates the code of conduct, the CEC said.
Three more vigilance teams comprised of Judicial magistrates and adequate number of BGB, Rab and other security agency personnel would be deployed before the Khulna City Corporation polls, he added.
Meanwhile, the Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) had transferred officers-in charge (OC) of five police stations on Saturday evening. They would join their new offices by June 10, said KMP Commissioner Shafiqur Rahman.
Pointing to the reshuffle, BNP-backed mayoral candidate Moniruzzaman Mony told the meeting the transfer was not enough for holding a credible election. “We want all politicised officers in KMP to get transferred,” he added.
Expressing satisfaction over law and order situation in the district, Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque said only 17 days for campaign were not enough for a mayoral candidate.
To ensure a free and fair poll, the EC was conducting training programmes for the candidates and election officials in the city corporation areas.
At Madan Mohan College in Sylhet, the commission ended its two-day training on electoral rules for 2,811 officials.
Yesterday, election officials held a mock voting through electronic voting machines (EVM) at three centres of ward no. 2 in Sylhet city while thousands gathered at ward no. 8 in Rajshahi city as the regional election office held trial voting there using EVMs.
Law enforcement agencies have already set up several checkpoints in the four cities on security grounds.
Candidates who have been conducting door-to-door electoral campaign for more than two weeks were revving up their campaign activities yesterday as the time was running out fast.
No comments:
Post a Comment