Law enforcers deployed ahead upazila parishad polls
Staff Correspondent
Members of law enforcement agencies, including Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), have been deployed in 157 upazilas ahead of the second phase of upazila parishad election on Sunday (May 19).
Deputy Secretary of the Election Commission (Election Management Branch) Atiyar Rahman said members of different law enforcement agencies will remain deployed for five days before and after the second phase of the country’s sixth upazila parishad polls slated for May 21.
The home ministry has already issued a circular in this regard.
According to the circular, a security team of 17 to 19 members would guard each polling station in the plain districts, while a security team of 19 to 21 members would protect a polling station in the Chittagong hill tracts and very remote areas.
