Voting underway at 2 suspended SCC centers
Published : 11 Aug 2018, 11:30
The re-election to two polling stations, where voting was postponed during Sylhet City Corporation polls on July 30, begins today (Saturday).
There are 2,221 voters at Gazi Burhanuddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School centre while 2,566 at Hobinandi Government Primary School one.
The elections to Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet city corporations were held July 30.
However, the announcement of the results was postponed in Sylhet as the number of votes in two centres where voting was suspended is higher than the difference between the two leading candidates’ tallies.
BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury has taken a lead of 4,626 votes in 132 centres out of 134. Ariful bagged 90,496 votes while Awami League’s Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran polled 85,870.
The BNP candidate now needs only 162 votes in the reelection to the postponed centres having a total of 4,877 voters.
Returning Officer Md Alimuzzaman announced the results of the 132 centres at Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sports Complex on Monday midnight.
Source: dailysun