Voting Ends in DCC Polls

Vote counting is underway as the much-anticipated Dhaka city polls ended amid concerns over the use of EVMs.

The polling started at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm today.

A total of 13 mayoral candidates -- six in the Dhaka North and seven in south city corporations -- were contesting the polls.

Around 50 lakh voters -- 30,35,621 in DNCC and 27,67,488 in DSCC -- will exercise their franchise using 14,000 EVMs.

For the first time in the electoral history of Bangladesh, only EVMs are being used in a major election that already appeared as a prestigious battle of ballots between the two political riva