Clashes in Jhenidah and Rajshahi have already made people wary of the elections.
The Election Commission (EC) is using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in 29 municipalities and traditional ballot papers in 31.
The EC has been holding the polls in four phases due to the pandemic. Today s will be the second.
The main contest would presumably be between the Awami League and BNP nominees. Other political parties, including the Jatiya Party and Islami Andolan Bangladesh, are also participating in the polls.
EC Senior Secretary Mohammad Alamgir said the EC had taken measures to prevent violence during and after the polls. We asked law enforcers to maintain law and order and to take strict actions against miscreants, he told The Daily Star.
24 municipalities go to polls with EVMs
Many voters clueless as to how to use the machines
Two Ansar members loading electronic voting machines onto a truck at the Barlekha upazaila election office yesterday. The EVMs were to be taken to 10 voting centres for today’s Barlekha municipality elections. Photo: Mintu Deshwara
Twenty-four municipalities will go to polls today using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid confusion among voters about uses of the machines.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Election Commission (EC) will conduct municipalities polls in four phases this time. Today will be the first phase.
The battle of ballots is expected to be held between two arch-rival political parties Awami League and BNP although candidates of other political parties including Jatiya Party and Islami Andolan Bangladesh are contesting in it.
Allegations against EC purpose-oriented: CEC
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Huda today said the allegations of 42 prominent citizens against the
Election Commission (EC) were baseless and purpose-oriented and had no
truth regarding it.
media center of Agargaon Election Building in the capital.
Election Commissioners Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam, Brigadier
General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury and Senior Secretary of the
EC Secretariat Mohammad Alamgir were present.
The CEC said, “Recently, 42 citizens (distinguished personalities)
of the country have appealed to the President to take action through
the Supreme Judicial Council on various allegations against the
Election Commission through a virtual conference.”
It has created confusion in the minds of the people and therefore it
Updated Dec 18, 2020 | 16:39 IST
The victim identified as Mohammad Alamgir was beaten to death after he was allegedly caught stealing a buffalo in Phulwarisharif area of Patna in Bihar on Wednesday. The victim was beaten for several hours and died at a hospital on Wednesday | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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Police said they have arrested all the accused
Patna: In yet another incident indicating to deteriorating law and order situation in Bihar, a 32-year-old man from minority community was brutally beaten to death by a mob in the state capital Patna over suspicion of cattle theft.
Police said they have arrested all the accused. Police have named six persons in the FIR.
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