12 aspirants from AL so far
Four people including a former Awami League central working committee member yesterday collected nomination forms from the Awami League seeking party ticket for the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral race.
With the four, a total 12 people expressed their aspiration to contest the DNCC poll under the banner of the ruling party.
Yesterday, on the second day since the AL started selling the forms, Advocate Mamtaj Uddin Mehedi, a former member of AL central working committee; Shamim Hasan, a former ward councillor; Maj Gen (retd) Yead Ali Fakir; and Abed Mansur, a businessman; collected nomination papers from the party president's Dhanmondi office.
Today is the last day for collecting the forms.
So far, no one holding any post in the party collected the nomination form.
On Saturday, four businessmen, three teachers and a poet collected AL nomination forms.
The AL's Local Government Nomination Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday to finalise the party's candidate for the mayoral post in the DNCC by-polls.
Meanwhile, five people yesterday bought nomination forms from BNP's Nayapaltan office to contest the mayoral post in the DNCC election.
They are BNP central executive committee member Tabith Awal, Dhaka city (north) unit President MA Quayum, the party's Assistant Publication Secretary Shakil Wahed, BNP central leader Asaduzzaman Ripon and expelled BNP leader Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman.
On Saturday night, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia during a meeting with the party's standing committee members at her Gulshan office discussed about Tabith Awal's prospective candidacy in the DNCC mayoral post.
However, the party would make its official decision on its ticket after the meeting of BNP's Nomination Board tonight.
By-polls to the DNCC mayoral post is scheduled to be held on February 26. Elections in the 36 newly formed wards of Dhaka north and south city corporations will also be held the same day. The post of the DNCC mayor became vacant after Annisul Huq, the incumbent mayor, passed away in London on November 30 last year.
In November 2011, the then Dhaka City Corporation was split into two corporations -- North and South.
In the last election of the DNCC held on April 28, 2015, Tabith Awal, the candidate endorsed by BNP, ran the mayoral race against AL-backed contender Annisul Huq.
Tabith boycotted the polls on the voting day, alleging widespread rigging.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance decided to nominate one mayoral candidate from the alliance, while the AL is to decide on the issue after a discussion with its 14-party alliance partners at a meeting today.
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