BNP candidate announces 19-point manifesto

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party backed candidate Hasan Uddin Sarkar on Thursday announced a 19-point electoral manifesto for for the Gazipur City Corporation polls scheduled for May 15.

Reaffirming his commitment to take efficient efforts to resolve different problems of GCC, Hasan Uddin announced the manifesto in the morning at a press briefing held at his Auchpara residence in Tongi.

The 19-point manifesto includes: launching master plan of GCC urbanization, solving water logging problem, ensuring safe drinking water to the city dwellers, ensuring health care and safe food for people, launching housing projects for working class people.

The manifesto has also commitments on building a new city corporation office building, providing citizen services, tuning with other service providing organisations, bringing in positive impact in the education and transport sectors, enhancing public security with CCTV cameras, limiting pollution and ensuring proper waste management in the city.

Meanwhile, ruling Awami League backed candidate Jahangir Alam termed the manifesto as 'unrealistic’.

A total of seven mayoral candidates, 256 general councilors and 84 reserved-seat female councillor candidates are competing in the GCC polls.