CTG Mayoral Candidates: Pledges are beyond their mandates
Most pledges made by the mayoral aspirants of the two major parties Awami League and BNP in their manifestos for the January 27 Chattagram City Corporation election are beyond the legal and financial mandates of a mayor, experts said.
Speaking to The Daily Star, local government and urban experts said the promises made by the AL mayoral aspirant Rezaul Karim Chowdhury and his main rival BNP s Shahadat Hossain on the mass transport system, river and canal reclamation, stopping of hill cutting, land management, resolving housing and water-logging problems are not under their jurisdiction.