A local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday requested the Election Commission to cancel the city corporation election scheduled for June 15, and re-schedule the polls after a
fresh delimitation of the Sylhet city corporation area.
He also urged the authorities concerned to appoint an administrator for the Sylhet city corporation as the elected mayor had already resigned to contest the upcoming elections.
Sylhet city BNP vice-president Badruzzaman Selim made the demands at a press conference in the city today.
The BNP leader threatened to move the court for its directive in this regard, if the Election Commission did not re-schedule the SCC polls after re-drawing the city area within a week next.
He said the residents under all six police stations of Sylhet Metropolitan Police would not be able to exercise their voting rights in the SCC polls scheduled for June 15.
Selim said that if the residents of all police stations under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police could exercise their voting right, why the residents of Sylhet city would not enjoy the same right.
He issued a one-week ‘ultimatum’ to the Election Commission for completing the delimitation and announcing a fresh schedule for the SCC polls, and said he would go to the court for a directive over the issue if the commission failed to meet the demand by the time.
The BNP leader also requested the party leaders not to be candidates in the SCC polls until getting the party high command’s instruction.
Sylhet city BNP vice-president Tareq Ahmed Chowdhury, join general secretary Humayun Kabir Shahin, and party leader Samia Begum Chowdhury, Nizam Uddin Tarafdar and Fayzur Rahman Zahed, among others, attended the programme.
-With New Age input
