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A case has been filed against a local Awami League leader today (June 13, 2022) for allegedly threatening voters in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila.
The country saw loss of 145 lives in violence throughout the six phases of partisan union parishad elections, a civil body platform says.
Voting at five polling centres are suspended due to violence in two districts and 13 BNP chairman candidates boycotted polls in three districts during the fifth phase of union parishad election.
Vote counting begins in the fifth phase of the Union Parishad (UP) elections held in 717 unions of 47 districts.
At least six people have been bullet-hit in a pre-election violence in Munshiganj’s Sadar upazila ahead of union parishad election this Saturday.
A newly elected member of a union parishad was detained with a pistol and five bullets in Naldanga upazila of Natore.
An Awami League (AL) rebel chairman candidate is stabbed at Kismat Gonokoir union of Durgapur upazila in Rajshahi.
The authorities approve a proposal to double the size of Dhaka city by adding eight more unions to both the north and south city corporations.
Over 700 unions will go to polls today against the backdrop of the deadly violence during electioneering in the last couple of weeks.
Masked miscreants brandish guns and pick up an independent chairman candidate of the Union Parishad polls from his house before killing him in Bandarban’s Ruma upazila.
Actions will be taken, if anyone shows muscle power or violate the electoral code of conduct during the upcoming Union Parishad polls, says Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque.
Third phase of Union Parishad elections to 681 UPs will be held across the country on April 23, Election Commission announces.
With union parishad elections getting closer, supporters of rival candidates are being engaged in clashes in several districts.
A nephew of BNP-backed chairman candidate from Sheikh Matia Union Parishad in Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur is stabbed dead by miscreants.
Civil society platform Sujon criticises role of Election Commission ahead of the upcoming Union Parishad polls and doubts fairness of the election.
BNP will participate in the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) election although it has doubts over the free and fair arrangement of the polls.
Elections to 752 union parishads, the biggest grassroots-level polls, will be held on March 22 on partisan lines for the first time.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader warns Awami League would expel its rebel candidates in the upcoming union parishad elections.
