A Chattogram courtroom has declared BNP leader and mayoral candidate Dr Shahadat Hossain mayor of the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) after he filed a lawsuit looking out for cancellation of the election results over “vote rigging.”
The courtroom of Electoral Tribunal and the Joint District and Sessions Pick Mohammad Khairul Amin issued the choice at 12pm this present day (1 October).
The courtroom also ordered the Election Rate submit a gazette on this regard within the next ten days, acknowledged Suggest Arshad Hossain Asad, representing the plaintiff.
Dr Shahadat filed the lawsuit in opposition to the Election Rate and nine others help in 24 February 2021 throughout the CCC election.
In the lawsuit, he made allegations of election rigging and sought to raze the outcomes.
The defendants in the case included the these days removed CCC mayor, M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, the regional election officer, the secretary to the election commissioner, and the chief election commissioner, amongst others.
None of their attorneys were indicate in courtroom this present day.
The case paperwork stated that CCC officials began coordinating with Rezaul Karim following the allocation of the ‘boat’ symbol.
“This means that the election day modified into as soon as merely a formality. This is why, a vote tally has smooth no longer been offered. No printed copies from the EVMs were distributed from any polling station,” reads the doc.
“By the afternoon of the election day, finest 4-6% of the votes had been solid. On the opposite hand, the election results showed that 22% of the votes had been solid,” it added.
As per the legitimate election results, the ‘boat’ candidate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury won with 369,248 votes in the CCC election held on 27 January 2021.
His closest competitor, BNP mayoral candidate Shahadat Hossain, got 52,489 votes below the ‘sheaf of paddy’ symbol.
