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Mon, Apr 9th, 2012 3:14 pm BdST
DCC elections on May 24
Dhaka, Apr 9 (bdnews24.com)Elections to the divided Dhaka City Corporations will be held on May 24, just five days before the deadline.
The Election Commission announced the polls plan on Monday.
Chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced the election schedule at a press conference in the afternoon.
According to the schedule, candidates can collect and submit nomination paper until Apr 19 and withdraw them until May 2.
DCC elections will be the first voting to be held under the incumbent EC that was instituted on Feb 9.
EC deputy secretary and Dhaka regional election officer Mihir Sarwar Morshed has been appointed returning officer for the balloting in northern DCC and Election Training Institute director general Khandaker Mizanur Rahman for the southern DCC elections.
The press conference was attended by election commissioners Abu Hafiz, Abdul Mobarak, Zabed Ali, Mohammad Shanewaz, EC secretary Mohammad Sadiq and the returning officers.
About 4 million voters are expected to go to voting.
The last DCC election was held in April 2002 but EC could not hold polls despite repeated attempts even though tenure of the last DCC expired in 2007.
DCC was divided on Nov 30 last year with the passing of a law that fixed a 90-day deadline for holding elections. But the previous EC declined to stage the elections in such a short time, forcing an extension of the deadline by 180 days instead of the previously fixed 90 days.
Elections to the DCCs must be held by May 29.
VOTERS and POLL CENTRES
As many as 3,852,926 voters from 92 wards in both the DCCs are expected to cast their votes in 1,957 polling centres.
Sarwar Morshed said a total of 2,172,427 voters including 1,027,823 female ones will choose their representatives in 36 wards in the DCC North elections.
As many as 1,680,499 voters, 763,621 of them female, will vote in the southern DCC election under 56 wards.
The number of polling centres in northern DCC is 1,084 while it is 873 in the southern part.
SPECIAL EFFORT
The Commission will require about 30,000 members from the law-enforcing agencies for holding the elections.
During the 21 days of canvassing, 92 executive magistrates will be in charge of as many mobile courts in as many general wards. A judicial magistrate will be on duty for each three reserved wards.
The magistrates will be monitoring enforcement of electoral laws.
Ten teams of law enforcers will be in operation to strike back in case of election violence. EC inspectors will be visiting all the wards to inform commission about the latest on the election atmosphere.
bdnews24.com/mhc/eh/bd/1544h
DCC elections on May 24
Dhaka, Apr 9 (bdnews24.com)Elections to the divided Dhaka City Corporations will be held on May 24, just five days before the deadline.
The Election Commission announced the polls plan on Monday.
Chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced the election schedule at a press conference in the afternoon.
According to the schedule, candidates can collect and submit nomination paper until Apr 19 and withdraw them until May 2.
DCC elections will be the first voting to be held under the incumbent EC that was instituted on Feb 9.
EC deputy secretary and Dhaka regional election officer Mihir Sarwar Morshed has been appointed returning officer for the balloting in northern DCC and Election Training Institute director general Khandaker Mizanur Rahman for the southern DCC elections.
The press conference was attended by election commissioners Abu Hafiz, Abdul Mobarak, Zabed Ali, Mohammad Shanewaz, EC secretary Mohammad Sadiq and the returning officers.
About 4 million voters are expected to go to voting.
The last DCC election was held in April 2002 but EC could not hold polls despite repeated attempts even though tenure of the last DCC expired in 2007.
DCC was divided on Nov 30 last year with the passing of a law that fixed a 90-day deadline for holding elections. But the previous EC declined to stage the elections in such a short time, forcing an extension of the deadline by 180 days instead of the previously fixed 90 days.
Elections to the DCCs must be held by May 29.
VOTERS and POLL CENTRES
As many as 3,852,926 voters from 92 wards in both the DCCs are expected to cast their votes in 1,957 polling centres.
Sarwar Morshed said a total of 2,172,427 voters including 1,027,823 female ones will choose their representatives in 36 wards in the DCC North elections.
As many as 1,680,499 voters, 763,621 of them female, will vote in the southern DCC election under 56 wards.
The number of polling centres in northern DCC is 1,084 while it is 873 in the southern part.
SPECIAL EFFORT
The Commission will require about 30,000 members from the law-enforcing agencies for holding the elections.
During the 21 days of canvassing, 92 executive magistrates will be in charge of as many mobile courts in as many general wards. A judicial magistrate will be on duty for each three reserved wards.
The magistrates will be monitoring enforcement of electoral laws.
Ten teams of law enforcers will be in operation to strike back in case of election violence. EC inspectors will be visiting all the wards to inform commission about the latest on the election atmosphere.
bdnews24.com/mhc/eh/bd/1544h
