Hectic polls campaign of AL, BNP in Chattogram -9 Seat
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Chattogram Bureau :
The Awami League and BNP are conducting desperate campaigns in the Bakalia area of Chattogram in an effort to take the Chattogram-9 seat.
The residents of the area are likely to decide the winner of the race between Awami League Organizing Secretary Mohibul Hassan Chowd-hury Nowfel and BNP Chattogram Committee President Shahadat Hossain.
Nowfel has been making the rounds himself while Shahadat sits in jail and has to rely on his supporters. The Chattogram-9 Constituency contains wards 15 to 23 and 31 to 35 of the Chattogram City Corporation and has 391,612 registered voters.
The constituency has never elected an MP for consecutive terms. The candidates of both the major parties are running for the first time.
BNP’s Abdullah Al Noman won the seat in 1991 after beating the Awami League’s ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. In 1996 Noman was beaten by Awami League leader MA Mannan. Noman regained the seat from Mannan in 2001. The Awami League and BNP both switched their candidates after the constituency boundaries were shifted for the 2008 polls. The Awami League chose Nurul Islam, while the BNP went with Shamsul Alam.
Islam won. In the 2014 election, which was boycotted by the BNP, the Awami League left the seat to the Jatiya Party’s Zia Uddin Bablu, who became the MP. Though the Awami League won the constituency in 2008, the BNP candidate had won the tally at several centres in Bakalia.
In this election 39 of Chattogram-9’s 144 polling centres are in the Bakalia area. The area has a total of 127,380 registered voters. According to Chattogram Reporters Union General Secretary and Voice of America Chattogram Correspondent Hassan Ferdous, who has observed several parliamentary elections, the Bakalia area is the key to victory in the race.
According to voters in the constituency, both candidates are acceptable to the youth of the area despite their differences in political ideology. Shahadat Hossain has been involved in Chattogram politics for over a decade.
The doctor leader became the general secretary of the Chattogram Metropolitan branch of the BNP in 2011 and then the president in 2017. Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel is better known as the son of former mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury.
The Awami League and BNP are conducting desperate campaigns in the Bakalia area of Chattogram in an effort to take the Chattogram-9 seat.
The residents of the area are likely to decide the winner of the race between Awami League Organizing Secretary Mohibul Hassan Chowd-hury Nowfel and BNP Chattogram Committee President Shahadat Hossain.
Nowfel has been making the rounds himself while Shahadat sits in jail and has to rely on his supporters. The Chattogram-9 Constituency contains wards 15 to 23 and 31 to 35 of the Chattogram City Corporation and has 391,612 registered voters.
The constituency has never elected an MP for consecutive terms. The candidates of both the major parties are running for the first time.
BNP’s Abdullah Al Noman won the seat in 1991 after beating the Awami League’s ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. In 1996 Noman was beaten by Awami League leader MA Mannan. Noman regained the seat from Mannan in 2001. The Awami League and BNP both switched their candidates after the constituency boundaries were shifted for the 2008 polls. The Awami League chose Nurul Islam, while the BNP went with Shamsul Alam.
Islam won. In the 2014 election, which was boycotted by the BNP, the Awami League left the seat to the Jatiya Party’s Zia Uddin Bablu, who became the MP. Though the Awami League won the constituency in 2008, the BNP candidate had won the tally at several centres in Bakalia.
In this election 39 of Chattogram-9’s 144 polling centres are in the Bakalia area. The area has a total of 127,380 registered voters. According to Chattogram Reporters Union General Secretary and Voice of America Chattogram Correspondent Hassan Ferdous, who has observed several parliamentary elections, the Bakalia area is the key to victory in the race.
According to voters in the constituency, both candidates are acceptable to the youth of the area despite their differences in political ideology. Shahadat Hossain has been involved in Chattogram politics for over a decade.
The doctor leader became the general secretary of the Chattogram Metropolitan branch of the BNP in 2011 and then the president in 2017. Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel is better known as the son of former mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury.
