Celebrity star candidates failed to win the 12th National Election

Entertainment Desk :
The 12th National Election featured the most number of celebrity candidates
competing in several constituencies across the country. Although a few of them won with ease, several popular candidates lost the competition for their respective seats.
However, the popular stars from the cultural arena including folk singer Momtaz Begum, Dhallywood actress Mahiya Mahi, popular singer Doly Sayontoni, magazine show ‘Ittyadi’-famed popular singer-musician Nakul Kumar Biswas and viral social media personality Ashraful Hossen Alom, better known as Hero Alom, failed to win the election in their constituencies.
Even though most of these candidates contested the election from other political parties, the result of Manikganj-2 surprised many as Momtaz lost in this seat. She was elected from the Manikganj-2 seat twice, but could not secure her hat-trick victory. Defeating the folk queen, independent candidate Zahid Ahmed Tulu has been elected in this seat, receiving a total of 84,525 votes. Momtaz got 78 thousand 269 votes, losing her seat in a close fight.
On the other hand, despite her massive campaigning throughout the campaign period, actress Mahiya Mahi lost the election. The independent candidate with the truck symbol lost the battle for the Rajshahi-1 seat and received 9 thousand 9 votes, while Omar Farooq Chowdhury, the Awami League candidate with the boat symbol, received 1 million 3 thousand 592 votes, defeating Mahiya Mahi by a gigantic margin.
Popular singer Doly Sayontoni and social media celebrity Ashraful Alom (Hero Alom) declared their intention to abstain from the election prior to the declaration of the results, citing irregularities. Boat candidate Ahmed Feroz Kabir won the Pabna-2 constituency against Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) candidate Doly by getting 1,65,842 votes, while the singer received only 4,382 votes with the anchor symbol.
Hero Alom was contesting the election as a candidate for the Bangladesh Congress with the coconut symbol in the Bogura-4 constituency. He received only 2,175 votes, while AKM Rezaul Karim Tansen of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) received 42 thousand 757 votes in the boat symbol in the overall results from 114 polling stations.
Although singer-musician Nakul Kumar Biswas ran a competitive election campaign to win the Barishal-2 constituency as a debutant candidate, veteran politician and Bangladesh Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon emerged victorious, garnering 1,24,573 votes in total with the boat symbol.