EC Monitoring Ballot Paper Based Dhaka-17 By-polls

The Election Commission (EC) is monitoring the elections for the municipalities of Pirojpur Bhandaria and Jashore's Benapole via CCTV cameras from the control room in Dhaka today.

In order to monitor the polls, the Election Commission has installed 1,058 CCTV cameras, including 853 for the Dhaka-17 seat.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibur Awal; Election Commissioners Brigadier General (retd) Ahsan Habib Khan, Rasheda Sultana, Md Anisur Rahman; Additional Secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath; NID Director General AKM Humayun Kabir; and IDEA-2 Project Director Brigadier General Abul Hasnat Mohammad Sayem have been monitoring the polls since this morning.

Two CCTV cameras have been installed in each polling place to monitor the election.

There have been no recorded undesirable events related to the election.

Elections in seven municipalities across seven districts, as well as voting in the Dhaka-17 seat, began at 8 am and will continue uninterrupted till 4 pm.

In the Dhaka-17 constituency, eight candidates are running in the race to be elected member of the parliament. The seat comprising Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara and part of Dhaka Cantonment fell vacant after the death of popular actor and freedom fighter Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque on May 14 this year.

A total of 33 mayoral candidates are running for seven posts, while 102 female contestants for 21 reserve seats and 364 contenders for 63 general councillor posts in the seven municipalities.