Rejecting the results of the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations, Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal (general strike) in Dhaka for tomorrow, Sunday.
According to UNB, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a press conference in the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Saturday evening.
Meanwhile, ruling Awami League mayoral candidates took lead in both Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the counting of votes in the elections to the two city corporations on Saturday.
According to unofficial results, AL mayoral runner Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh got 278,193 votes while BNP’s Ishraque Hossain polled 142,975 in 713 centres out of total 1,150 in DSCC.
Earlier, balloting in the DNCC and DSCC elections ended at 4:00pm amid ‘low voter turnout’ and reports of sporadic violence and allegations of BNP agents being driven out of polling stations.