SCC polls: Awami League candidate ahead

The Awami League candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury is ahead in the Sylhet City Corporation election.

The information has been revealed based on the results of 70 centers, said Rahat Tarafdar, the former president of Mahanagar Chhatra League, who is in charge of Anwaruzzaman‍‍`s main constituency on Wednesday.

Anwaruzzaman has so far received 43,083 votes while his nearest rival candidate Nazrul Islam Babul of plough symbol got 15,974.

Voters exercised their franchise through EVMs at 190 centers in Sylhet from 8am to 4pm. 

The election is being held for the fifth time in this city in 42 wards with an area of 79.50 square kilometers.

Some 132 of the polling centres have been categorized as risky. 

The mayoral candidates are the Awami League‍‍`s Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, Jatiya Party‍‍`s Nazrul Islam Babul, Zaker Party‍‍`s Zahirul Alam, and independent candidates Abdul Hanif Kutu, Salah Uddin Rimon, Shah Jahan Mia and Mostak Ahmed Rouf Mostafa.

The Islami Andolan‍‍`s Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan has boycotted the election.

Among the mayoral candidates of Sylhet, Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury and Nazrul Islam Babul may be in fierce competition, voters said.

As many as 273 general councillor candidates are in the polls fray in the city‍‍`s 42 wards, where 42 women are vying for reserved councillor positions. 

This time the total number of voters is 487,753. Among them, 254,360 are men and 233,387 are women.