AL candidate wants re-election in Nabinagar

Defeated Awami League candidate has demanded re-election to 16 centres of Nabinagar upazila in a written complaint to the Election Commission.

He claims that there is proof of irregularities in vote counting of ballots in those centres for the position of upazila chairman, our local correspondent reports.

Ruling Awami League’s chairman nominee Kazi Zahir Uddin Siddique submitted his appeal to the EC secretariat on yesterday afternoon.

He alleged, huge discrepancy was found in 4,500 cancelled ballots for Awami League, what he claimed was done under instruction of local lawmaker.

He also alleged, agents of boat symbol were not permitted to enter voting centres on election day and that ballots were stamped for the symbol ‘inkpot’.

Contacted, Nabinagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Ranojit Roy said the allegations were not true and that police discharged its responsibilities on election day.