Chattogram Bureau

BNP leader Dr. Shahadat Hossain, who was recently declared mayor-elect of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) by an election tribunal, will take oath as the mayor in Dhaka tomorrow.

AF Hassan Ariff, Adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives, will administer the oath at 11 am at the conference room of the Local Government Division at the Secretariat in Dhaka.

Confirming the matter to BSS, Maruful Haque Chowdhury, personal secretary of Dr. Shahadat, said senior government officials, key BNP leaders, including many BNP leaders and activists from Chattogram, are expected to attend the oath taking ceremony.

After taking oath, the new mayor will visit the mazar of BNP founder and former Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman to pay tribute. Shahadat is scheduled to return to Chattogram on November 5 to formally take the charge, he added.

Touhidul Islam, Chief Executive Officer of CCC, told BSS that the authorities are taking preparation to receive the new mayor at CCC office on November 5 in Chattogram.
The office of city mayor was decorated and an introduction meeting has been arranged at CCC conference room at 10 am on November 5.

Earlier, the Election Tribunal in Chattogram declared former BNP city unit president Dr Shahadat Hossain as the mayor-elect of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) in a case filed by him seeking cancellation of 2021 election results.

Election Tribunal judge as well as joint district and sessions judge Mohammad Khairul Amin handed down the verdict on October 1 this year.

Dr Shahdat, former BNP nominated mayoral candidate for CCC election, filed the case on February 24, 2021 for widespread electoral fraud and several other of vote rigging incidents.