4-tier security measures taken for SCC polls Election equipment sent to 190 centres

Published June 21, 2023 · Updated June 21, 2023

Anser members dispatch election materials to dfferent polling centres on Tuesday ahead of Rajshahi City Corporation polls to be held on Wednesday. This photo was taken from Rajshahi New Government Degree College compound. NN photo

Sylhet Bureau :
The Election Commission (EC) and the local administration have taken a four-tier security measures in and around the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) ahead of its election scheduled to be today (Wednesday).
Members of police, RAB, BGB, Ansar and different intelligence agencies have been deployed to manage the law and order situation in the city.
In addition, mobile courts, led by executive magistrate, will operate in the area. EC sources said that there will be mobile courts, headed by executive magistrates, in each ward under the city corporation. In addition, 14 judicial magistrates will conduct separate mobile courts in all the 42 ward will remain on the ground for immediate trial of any election-related offence and avoid any untoward situation.
Meanwhile, the EC has completed all preparations for SCC election.

Voting equipment including Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were sent from the Abul Mal Abdul Muhit Sports Complex at Mendibagh in the city to the centre through tight security measures on Tuesday afternoon.
Voting in 190 centers will continue from 8am till 4pm on Wednesday.
Returning officer Faisal Kader said that the entire city corporation area has been covered with a four-tier security before the polls.
He said: “All preparations have been completed to make the election fair and beautiful. However, due to the rain, there is concern about the presence of voters in Sylhet’s polling stations.”
He also said that all the centres have installed CC cameras.

There will be two CC cameras outside of each polling station. There are cameras in 1,367 polling booths. In total there are

1,747 CC cameras. These will be monitored from the EC head office in Dhaka.
This time the total number of voters is 487,753. Among them 254,360 are male voters and 233,387 female voters.
Six candidates are contesting for the post of mayor, 273 for the post of councillor in the general ward and 86 in the reserved ward.
The mayoral candidates are- Awami League’s Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, Jatiya Party’s Nazrul Islam Babul, Zaker Party’s Zahirul Alam while Abdul Hanif Kutu, Salah Uddin Rimon, and Shah Jahan Mia are the independent candidates.
Islami Andolan’s Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan has boycotted the election.