Voting underway in 2 centres of SCC

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet: Voting in two centres of Sylhet City Corporation election, in which voting was postponed due to various irregularities on July 30, is underway to determine the mayor of the city corporation.

The voting started at 8am on Saturday and will continue till 4pm.

There are 2,221 voters at Gazi Burhanuddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School centre while 2,566 at Hobinandi Government Primary School one.

BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury has taken a lead of 4,626 votes in 132 centres out of 134. Ariful bagged 90,496 votes while Awami League’s BadarUddin Ahmed Kamran polled 85,870.

The BNP candidate now needs only 81 votes in the reelection to the postponed centres having a total of 4,787 voters.



risingbd/Sylhet/Aug 11, 2018/Noman/Mukul