AL candidate Selim Jahangir wins Paikgachha Municipality polls
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KHULNA, Jan 31, 2021 (BSS) – Awami League (AL) nominated candidate Selim Zahangir was elected as the mayor of Paikgacha Municipality of Khulna for three consecutive terms.
Upazilla Election Officer and Assistant Returning Officer Kamal Uddin Ahmed declared the results here on Saturday evening.
Selim Zahangir with Awami League’s boat symbol got 8,365 votes in the polls while his only rival candidate Advocate Proshanto Mondal with the ‘Scythe’ symbol of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) bagged 1,623 votes.
Meanwhile, five Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidates, two AL candidates and two independent candidates were elected as councilors.
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Published: 16 Jan 2021 11:34 AM BdST
Updated: 16 Jan 2021 02:06 PM BdST
The second phase of voting has begun in 60 municipalities with over 2 million eligible voters across Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic. );
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Despite the wintry weather, voters have queued up at various voting centres after the polls opened at 8 am Saturday.
Electronic voting machines or EVMs have been deployed in 29 municipalities while the rest are using traditional ballot papers.
Voters will elect new representatives to the posts of mayor, general councillor and reserved councillor in these municipalities.
The Election Commission says all the polls have been conducted in compliance with all the hygiene rules in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.