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Published: 13:16, 4 June 2023

SCC Election : Candidates in Sylhet hold campaigns!

Sylhet City Corporation election will be held after 16 days. This sacred land of Hazrat Shahjalal has accumulated during the election campaign. Candidates and workers-supporters entered the election field with symbols. Processions-meetings and road meetings are going on. Sylhet city is now active in campaigning, banner-festoon and miking.

Candidates for mayor and councilors began official campaigning on June 2 after receiving symbols. Banners and festoons are being strung across the city. Mikeing is going on. Candidates desperate for victory. Trying to win the hearts of the voters in various ways. The entire city of Sylhet is busy with processions, including Oligli.

Even though BNP will not participate in this election, the main fight will be between the ruling Awami League and the opposition party Jatiya Party candidate. Apart from this, Islami Andolan Bangladesh nominee Hajef Maulana Mahmudul Hasan is also in discussion.

Bangladesh Awami League nominated boat candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, Jatiya Party candidate Nazrul Islam Babul (plough), Islamic movement mayoral candidate Mahmudul Hasan (hand fan), Zahirul Alam of Zaker party (rose flower), Independent mayoral candidate Mohammad Abdul Hanif (horse) are contesting for the mayoral post. ), Md. Shah Jahan Mia (bus car) and Chalah Uddin Rimon (cricket bat).

Meanwhile, on Sunday (June 4) at around 12:30 noon, Bangladesh Awami League nominated boat candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury held mass in Kajal Shah area of the city. During this time he asked for votes to build a smart Sylhet city.

On the other hand, at the same time, Nazrul Islam, the mayoral candidate of the Jatiya Party nominated plow symbol, held mass in Kalighat area of Babul city. There he announced to transform the city of Sylhet into an aesthetic city, saying that the people of this city have been deprived for a long time. These city dwellers can no longer be forgotten in the empty words of development. The tide of plow symbols has risen in this election. No conspiracy can prevent this victory.

Islami Andolan Bangladesh nominated mayoral candidate Hafez Maulana Mahmudul Hasan said that there is a modern plan to beautify the city and said, "If I can be elected with your prayers and cooperation, then I will make Sylhet a complete modern developed city on the model of the developed world, inshallah."

Sources in the office of the returning officer said that a total of 7 mayors and 372 councilors are contesting in the final battle of the Sylhet City Corporation (CCIC) elections.

Total voters in 42 wards are 4 lakh 86 thousand 605 people. Among them 2 lakh 53 thousand 763 men and 2 lakh 32 thousand 842 women. Total centers 190 and polling booths 1 thousand 364. After the establishment of Sylhet City Corporation in 2002, this is the first time that all the wards of Sylhet are voting through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM).

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