The voting of the country’s much talked Narayanganj City Corporation election started at 8am in 192 polling centers and will continue till 4 pm without any break.
It draws a huge visible response from the voter, the presence of the voter increasing over time.
It has a total of 517,362 registered voters – 259,846 men, 257,511 women and four people from third gender communities who will exercise their voting rights at 1333 polling booths in 192 centers.
The election will decide the post of mayor, nine reserved women councilors and 27 ward councilors.
The polls will be held through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). So, 2,912 EVM machines have been sent to Narayanganj, on the outskirts of the capital. Each center will have one and a half times more EVM than required.
The electioneering ended at 12 midnight yesterday.
Fourteenth judicial magistrates have been appointed to conduct elections peacefully. Under the Penal Code, they will be able to carry out brief trials with filing cases.
More than 5,000 members of the law enforcement agencies will be deployed to ensure security while each center will have 28 security personnel.
However, the Election Commission (EC) has allowed 42 observers from 9 organizations to monitor the election.
The organizations are: National Election Observation Council (JANIPP), SAARC Human Rights Foundation, Legal Aid Center, Foundation, Social Development Efforts, Trinamool Development Organization, Taltala Youth Development Organization, Rehaf Foundation, BB Asia Foundation and Human Rights and Social Development Organization-MOSUS.
