Bangladesh has achieved incredible success in the agriculture sector, with the industry playing an important role in food production as well as ensuring sustainable food security, employment and export trade, according to Zakir Hossain, state minister for primary and mass education.
AL’s Kaziul poised to become Kurigram municipality mayor
Kaziul Islam
Awami League candidate Kaziul Islam has been elected unofficially in the Kurigram municipality election.
Kaziul got 20,571 votes with the boat symbol and his nearest contestant independent (BNP rebel) candidate Abu Bakar Siddique got 5,264 votes, said District Election Officer and Returning Officer Jahangir Alam Rakib.
There were 36,896 votes cast in 24 polling stations of the municipality till 4:00pm which is 66 percent of the total 56,397 votes, he said.
Among other candidates, BNP candidate Shafiqul Islam Bebu got 5,165 votes, Islamic Shasantantra candidate Abdul Majid got 4,085 votes and independent candidate Saidul Hasan Dulal got 1,812 votes.