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Directive to publish gazette within 10 daysn: Dr. Shahadat announced as Mayor of Chittagong City

Directive to publish gazette within 10 daysn: Dr. Shahadat announced as Mayor of Chittagong City

Chittagong Bureau

The court has declared BNP leader Dr Shahadat Hossain as the Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation. At the same time, instructions have been given to publish the gazette within the next 10 days.

The verdict was given by the Election Tribunal and Joint District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Khairul Amin on Tuesday afternoon. The plaintiff's lawyer Arshad Hossain Asad confirmed this information.

On January 27, 2021, elections were held in Chittagong City Corporation. Awami League candidate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury won by getting 369 thousand 248 votes. However, after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government on August 5, the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives announced the removal of mayors of city corporations on August 19.

In 2021, the main rival of the candidate who won this city election was BNP's Shahadat Hossain who got 52 thousand 489 votes. However, after the election, on February 24, he filed a case against nine people in the court of Chittagong First Joint District Judge and Election Tribunal Judge Khairul Amin on charges of rigging. Shahadat of BNP. Today he was declared mayor in that case.

The 9 defendants in the case are - Awami League mayoral candidate M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission Secretary, Chittagong Regional Election Officer, City Election Returning Officer, mayoral candidate Abul Mansoor, MA Matin, Khokon Chowdhury, Waheed Murad and Jannatul Islam. .

Arshad Hossain Asad, the plaintiff's lawyer, said that BNP mayoral candidate Dr. Shahadat Hossain filed a case in the Election Tribunal. In that case on Tuesday the court declared him the mayor.

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