Anisur Rahman (Nauka), the organizing secretary of Gazipur district Awami League, has been elected as the mayor for the fourth time in the Sreepur municipal election of Gazipur. He has shown surprise in the history of this municipality by being elected four times in a row. Anisur Rahman won the election privately with 23,046 votes. His nearest rival, BNP-backed candidate Sreepur Municipal BNP president Advocate Kazi Khan (rice husk) got 10,096 votes. Besides, Farhad Ahmed Momtaji (hand fan), a candidate of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, got 3,081 votes. Independent candidate Shah Alam (Jag) got 3,921 votes.
Returning Officer and District Election Officer Kazi Istafizul Haque Akand announced the names of the mayor of the municipality, general councilors of 9 wards and privately elected candidates of 3 reserved seats at 8:30 pm.
The Sreepur municipal elections in Gazipur have gone smoothly without a single isolated incident. Independent mayoral candidate Shah Alam (Jag) was released an hour and a half after his arrest on charges of entering polling booths and talking to agents.
Meanwhile, Emdad Khalifa, 60, son of Sobahan Munshi of Kewa Paschim Khand village, was killed while standing in line to cast his vote at Kewa Tamir Uddin Alim Madrasa (Mauna Chowrasta).
Returning officer Kazi Mohammad Istafizul Haque Akand said independent mayoral candidate Shah Alam (Jag) was taken to the police station by law enforcers at around 2pm. He was arrested from Lohagach polling station in Ward 3 at around 2pm on the instructions of the executive magistrate on charges of entering booths and talking to agents.
Sreepur police sub-inspector (SI) Samia said independent mayoral candidate Shah Alam was released from the police station at 3.30 pm on the instructions of the executive magistrate.
According to SI Samia, a man named Emdad Khalifa (60) fell ill while standing in line to cast his vote at Kewa Tamir Uddin Madrasa polling station at 9.30 am. He is the son of Sobahan Munshi of Kewa Paschimkhand area.
They are Ahmadul Kabir Mandal Dara (Camel Bird) in Ward 1, Masud Pradhan (Punjabi) in Ward 2, Shahid Sarkar (Camel Bird) in Ward 3, Kamruzzaman Mandal (Camel Bird) in Ward 4, Ramiz Uddin Sarkar (Water Bottle) in Ward 5, Haji Kamal Mahmud (camel bird) in ward 7, Mohammad Habibullah (water bottle) in ward 7, Ali Azgar Bepari (water bottle) in ward 7 and Amjad Hossain (water bottle) in ward 9 have been elected unofficially.
Nazma Begum (glasses) in wards 1, 2 and 3, Momina Begum Bulbuli (glasses) in wards 4, 5 and 6 and Afroza Akter (glasses) in wards 6, 7 and 9 have been elected unofficially.
--- Mahbubul Alam, Gazipur
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