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Voters at the Cumilla city corporation elections, at the Shaktala High School polling centre

So how was the Cumilla city corporation election?

The election commission needs to take more care to ensure that a well-conducted election does not become controversial due to a couple of mistakes (?). The commission's constitutional duties and ...

Independent candidate Monirul Haque Sakku at the Cumilla district Shipakala Academy during the announcement of poll results on Wednesday

Cumilla City polls My defeat was planned: Monirul

Independent candidate Monirul Haque Sakku has announced to take legal action, challenging the declared results of Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) polls

Lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar talks to media at a polling booth in Cumilla on 15 June 2022

Cumilla city polls MP Bahauddin slams EC for its letter to him

The Awami League MP said he would raise the issue in the Jatiya Sangsad and propose a reformation into the law

Independent mayoral candidate Mohammad Nizam Uddin Kaiser showing victory sign after casting his vote at the Cumilla Victoria College centre on 15 June 2022

Cumilla city polls Satisfactory environment, want to monitor throughout the day: Nizam

Independent mayoral candidate Mohammad Nizam Uddin Kaiser has expressed satisfaction over the electoral environment in the ongoing Cumilla City Corporation polls

EC official asks people wearing badge of boat to leave the area

Cumilla City Corporation polls Six jailed for attempt to cast fake votes

Six people were jailed for different terms for their attempt to cast fake votes and creating mayhem at the voting centres during the elections to Cumilla City Corporation Wednesday

A polling official helps voter in casting her vote in the Cumilla City Corporation election on 15 June, 2022

Cumilla City Corporation polls Monirul complains about slow pace in voting using EVM

Independent candidate Monirul Haque (Sakku) has complained about the slow speed of EVM

A long queue of voters before the start of voting in Cumilla City Corporation Election on 15 June 2022

Voting begins in Cumilla City Corporation election

Five candidates have been competing for mayoral post while 106 for councillor and 36 candidates have been competing for reserved women councillor posts

Arfanul Haque

Interview: Arfanul Haque EC can't ask the MP to leave Cumilla

Local member of parliament (MP) AKM Bahauddin did not leave the city corporation area although the election commission (EC) sent him letters asking him twice. The EC did not take any measures against ...

Monirul Haque

Interview: Monirul Haque Cumilla city polls: ‘CEC faces hindrance at the very outset’

The chief election commissioner directly said, forcing an MP to leave his constituency is not their task. Then, whose responsibility is this? I don’t know the law much. If there’s no such law, then ...

Inside the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

Opposition MPs slam election commission, police

BNP MP Harunur Rashid said the election commission should be abolished and the duties of holding election should be handover to police

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal

CEC hopes polls-time govt will cooperate with EC

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal on Monday sought cooperation from the government in holding elections in free and fair manner

Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) secretary Badiul Alam Majumder presents information on the candidates contesting the Cumilla City Corporation election, at an event at the National Press Club in Dhaka on 13 May 2022.

EC expressing helplessness in Cumilla not a good sign: Shujan

Shujan secretary Badiul Alam Majumder said the Election Commission has been bestowed upon immense power but has expressed its helplessness in CumillaThat is not a good sign. The EC must exert its ...

Former election commissioner Mahbub Talukder

EC should control admin, home ministries during election: Mahbub

Public administration and home ministries should be brought under the election commission’s jurisdiction during the polls to hold an international standard election.

US ambassador Peter Haas is talking to newsmen after making a courtesy call on chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal at the Nirbachan Bhaban at Agargaon in the capital on Wednesday.

US has no headache as to who will win elections in Bangladesh: Peter Haas

US ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, has said his government has no concern as to who will win elections in Bangladesh

Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki at DCAB talk

Japanese ambassador at DCAB talk Japan hopes for an election better than last time

Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki, at a DCAB talk on Tuesday, expressed hope that the forthcoming election in Bangladesh would be better than last time

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