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Friday, November 4, 2011

Ivy in the lead in NCC polls by big margin

 Ivy in the lead in NCC polls by big margin
Dr Selina Hayat Ivy waving after visiting a polling centre at Deovog in Narayanganj Sunday. - Focus BanglaNARAYANGANJ, Oct 30 (Agencies): Unofficial results of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election show that Mayor candidate Selina Hayat Ivy of Awami League is leading with huge majority over her nearest rival Shamim Osman who was backed by AL central leaders.

Until our going to press at 10-33 in 132 centres out of 163, Ivy polled 1,50,319 votes while Shamim got 59,900 votes.


Earlier report adds: Long before the official results, Ivy claimed victory in her race for Narayanganj mayor.


The Awami League's renegade candidate claimed victory based on the early results of 20 centres out of the 163, which put her ahead by about 20,000 votes, announced up until 8.43pm.


This victory was against extortionists and land-grabbers, Ivy told the press around 7:45pm Sunday barely four hours after the polls closed.


Ivy's main rival, ruling Awami League-backed Shamim Osman got 6,268 votes in the 20 centres where Ivy polled 26,505 votes. The city council has just over 400,000 voters.


Happily putting up her index and middle finger in a 'V', Ivy said, "I knew it. I have won, because the people are with me." Ivy, who was wearing a pink sari, looked confident and pleased.


Source: thefinancialexpress-bd.com


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

NCC goes to the polls today under tight security

All eyes are now on Narayanganj, City Corporation as the newly-formed to the vote today (Sunday) goes under tight security.


The Election Commission (EC) has all kinds of preparation, necessary equipment such as ballot boxes and electronic voting machines (EVMs) send the polling centres.


The elections the country get a mayor and Councillors of his seventh City Corporation. A total of six candidates will be contested for the mayoral post and 250 other contenders for the post of town councils.


After a last-minute drama about deployment of the army,.


Police and rapid action battalion (RAB) have been around 163 retrieve centres implemented in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) to smooth and fair elections to ensure.


More than 430,000 people are to their voice, by more than 1,500 booths set up by the European Commission in 27 NCC stations to choose administrators of the City Corporation.


Ballot boxes, EVMs and other materials were that sent points each vote in the morning, while several teams of Bill patrol areas of the NCC were seen, maintain peace and order before the quoted elections.


In the meantime the campaign for the polls midnight arrived officially to end of Friday after an air of uncertainty the EC announced, that provided no troops for the elections.


Voters have tried foolproof panic precautions of the authorities so that they can directly peacefully exercise their right to vote.


The EC has identified 126 polling centres as prone to violence, which have been taken in the tight security measures, the returning officer who said Narayanganj Biswas Lutfur Rahman, adding that the voters their choice franchise through EVMs in 58 centres.


"Posts already check Elf was set up at various strategic points, and the police officers led also seek in various key areas to the elections free and fair", he added.


Commander of RAB legal & media wing M Sohail said that some of the 1,400 RAB men in the areas of NCC, to back the confidence of the people in the polls have been provided.


"This is to force the largest to cover every single election ever deployment of the elite." We the polls peacefully at all costs will hold, "he said, her voice without fear urged voters."


Dog squad and bomb disposal units of RAB reached also NCC to check any possible criminal activity, as feared by a key participant of the polls.


Taimur remain


in the race


UNB adds: their candidate Taimur Alam Khan Dacian asked BNP in the race to stay, for the mayoral, although the party will not vote feels free and fair in the absence of the army post in the elections.


Addressing a press conference at party headquarters Saturday morning, BNP Deputy Abdullah Al Noman asked me, is why the EC keeps the choice of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), which supposedly the Government violated the Constitution no cooperation with them in the deployment of the army.


He mentioned that the CEC that the Commission is not responsible has said if problems break out during the elections. "If so, why the Commission considers that the choice?" he asked.


Noman said that the Commission has used a letter to the Government, the deployment of the army.


Source: thefinancialexpress-bd.com


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