Hero Alam defeated by 834 votes in Bogura-4 by-polls

The independent candidate Ashraful Alam alias Hero Alam has been defeated by 834 votes to grand alliance candidate AKM Rezaul Karim Tansen in the by-polls to Bogura-4 (Kahalu-Nandigram).  

The by-election returning officer and Bogura deputy commissioner (DC) Md Saiful Islam announced the result on Wednesday night. As per the result, 78, 524 votes were cast in 112 centres which accounted for 23.92 per cent turnout.   

AKM Rezaul Karim won the election securing 20,405 votes to 19,571 votes bagged by his nearest contestant Hero Alam while 10,791 votes were cast for Md Musfiqur Rahman and 10,442 for Kamrul Hasan Siddique -- both were independent candidates.          

Earlier, Hero Alam was ahead of AKM Rezaul Karim in 63 centres, securing 11,564 and 9,040 votes respectively.