BSS-42 Municipality polls held peacefully: EC Sr Sec

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Municipality polls held peacefully: EC Sr Sec

DHAKA, Jan 16, 2021 (BSS) – Election Commission (EC) Secretariat’s
Senior Secretary Mohammad Alamgir today said the overall situation in
the 2nd phase municipality elections in the country was very good.

‘The poll was held peacefully as the voters exercised their
franchises peacefully. It has been possible to hold a beautiful
election with the cooperation of everyone including the law
enforcers,” he said.

The stated this while talking to reporters at Nirbachan Bhaban in
city’s Agargaon area after the elections.

Alamgir said miscreants tried to snatch ballot papers at a center
in Boalmari municipality in Faridpur out of 60 municipalities. But
they could not take the ballot papers, he said, adding that the
presiding officer has postponed the polling at the polling station as
the ballot box was broken.

He added that attempts to snatch ballot papers at a center in
Kishoreganj have also been stopped. Besides, voting has been completed
at all the centers of 60 municipalities, he continued.

The senior secretary said that he has received reports of untoward
situation in two of the 700 polling stations, but it is not a big deal
as it happens more or less in all elections.

He said that according to the information received so far, the
highest turnout was 80 percent and the lowest was 55 percent. “Of
course this is not the final calculation,” he said.

Alamgir said holding participatory elections and neutral elections
are different issues, but the responsibility of the EC is to conduct
neutral elections.

If no one comes to the polls, then the EC has nothing to do, he
said, adding that political parties may have a strategy for not coming
to the polls.

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