All the three candidates running for the mayoral post in the upcoming election to the Rajshahi city corporation committed that they would build
Rajshahi as agriculture-based industrial city if they were elected.
Besides, they will work to launch upgraded bus service for the city dwellers, bring navigability in the River Padma, resist drug addiction and remove accommodation crises of the students in the city.
They expressed the commitment at an election dialogue hosted by BBC Bangla and BBC Media Action held in the Rajshahi Medical College auditorium Friday night.
Mayoral candidates AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul and Habibur Rahman faced the public and responded to several questions in the one-hour dialogue.
Mentioning the visible development works, former mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said ‘We have implemented 14 agenda out of 23 points of our election manifesto of last election. I want to finish the rest if I am elected’.
Responding to some other queries he said the town service bus would be launched with initiative of RCC. Apart from this, water flow in the River Padma would be restored through dredging in the mighty river.
Another mayoral candidate Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul, replying to a question about extending support to him by Hefazat-E-Islami, said, ‘Hefazat isn’t a registered organisation. There is no question of implementing their 13-point demands’.
‘If I am elected I shall transform the city into a terrorism and drug-addiction free city through creating mass-awareness against drug addiction,’ he added.
Besides, he said measures would be taken to arrange state-level declaration dubbing Rajshahi as an educational city.
Bulbul also said Rajshahi would be changed into a full-fledged educational city after establishing BKSP College, Medical University and Agricultural University if he is elected.
Habibur Rahman, another candidate, said Rajshahi would be taken forward through adopting more need-oriented projects if he is elected.
-With New Age input
