CEC happy with polls
Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the Chittagong City Corporation election was held freely and peacefully thanks to fair conduct of contesting candidates.
In a post-poll reaction to the media at the Election Commission Secretariat, the polls chief thanked the candidates and city dwellers for their cooperation.
He lauded successful introduction of the electronic voting system to a CCC ward and said the modern voting system will be introduced in more wards in the upcoming Dhaka City Corporation election.
On the arrest of BNP standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Huda said the BNP leader did not violate the electoral code of conduct since nothing objectionable was found in his vehicle.
He, however, said the EC would examine why police arrested the BNP leader Wednesday night and released him after seven hours.
The poll chief said the EC would contest the case it filed against Salauddin in connection with his comment against the voter list for the CCC polls. The BNP leader earlier alleged that 50,000 fake voters were in the voter list prepared for the CCC polls.
He said six allegations on driving out polling agents from polling centres proved baseless on examination of video footage.
BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, chief election agent of BNP backed candidate Manjur Alam, alleged that polling agents of Manjur were forced to leave 20 polling stations.
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