Writ petition seeks deferral of city polls
A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking a directive on the Election Commission to defer the date (January 30) of Dhaka city corporation elections, as Saraswati Puja is also on that day.
Advocate Ashoke Kumar Ghosh submitted the petition before the HC on Sunday, requesting the court to order the EC to defer the election date and hold the polls in the first week of February.
In the petition, Ghosh said that Saraswati Puja, one of the major religious festivals of the Hindu community, will be held at almost all academic institutions across the country on January 29 and January 30.
Polling centres will be set up at the institutions for holding the election. As a result, observance of the puja will be hampered, he mentioned in the petition.
Ghosh told reporters that the HC may hold hearing on the writ petition any day this week.
On December 22, 2019, the Election Commission announced that the elections to the Dhaka south and north city corporations will be held on January 30.
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