Voting underway in Rangpur-3

By-polls to Rangpur-3 constituency, which was left vacant after the death of Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad, is being held today (Saturday).

Voting started at 9:00am and will continue till 5:00pm.

Election Commission (EC) has taken all-out preparations to hold the election peacefully in all 175 centres. The voting is being held using electronic voting machine (EVM) across the constituency.

A total of 4,41,224 people are expected to exercise their franchise in the election. Of them, male voters are 2,20,823 while female 2,20,401.

 

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