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Chandpur Municipal Election Postponed: Voting not happen on March 29.In the Chandpur municipal elections, no vote of the mayor, councilor and reserved women councilor is taking place on March 29. On Monday afternoon, March 16, the election commission’s deputy secretary said. The information was provided in a notification signed by Atiar Rahman. The election has been postponed.
Chandpur Sadar Upazila Election Officer Delwar Hossain confirmed to the Chandpur Times, “The new date for changing the vote will be announced later. There is no election right now. ‘
Earlier on March 13, the election commission (EC) postponed the election of Chandpur municipality as mayor, keeping the issue of councilors in the death of former municipal chairman Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, the BNP candidate. The election was postponed at the time of the mayor, but on the predetermined date, on March 29, the councilor of the 15 wards of the municipality and reserved ward councilor of the 5 wards were informed about the election.
In the context of the ongoing nominations and nominations, the rules are mentioned in the notification, “Provision to allow others interested candidates other than the incumbent candidate to run for mayor after the announcement of new schedule by sub-rule (3) of Rule 20 of the Local Government (Municipal) Election Rules, 2020”. Will remain But without the mayor, there will be no opportunity to submit nominations for a new candidate in the post of suspended reserved councilor and general seat councilor. As a result, elections will be held between the contesting candidates from the stage at which the post is reserved for the reserved councilor and general seat councilor. As a result, no new nomination should be submitted to the old candidates. Only the new mayor will have the opportunity to submit nominations for the post of mayor.
It is stated in the wisdom that more guidance will be given later on in this regard. But a source from the Election Commission said that it may take several months for the election to be announced on the ongoing Corona issue and the HSC exam issue in the future.
Correspondent: Delwar Hossain, March 16,2020
