EC team visits Barisal to probe allegations of vote rigging

A team of Election Commission (EC) has visited Barisal to investigate the delay in declaring results of Barisal City Corporation election and alleged vote rigging.
Manirul Islam, returning officer of BCC election, told The Daily Star that Nurul Islam, joint secretary, and Shahjahan Mia, deputy secretary of EC, came to Barisal on Wednesday without any prior notice and left Barisal on Thursday night.
He said that the EC team interrogated officials and staffs of Barisal EC office concerned about the delay in declaring result and went through some election-related documents. However, he refused to give details.
AL candidate Shawkat Hossain Hiron won the mayoral race defeating Progressive Democratic Party's Sharfuddin Ahmed Santu, getting 46,795 votes while Santu bagged 46,208 votes.