A Chattogram court docket has declared BNP chief and mayoral candidate Dr Shahadat Hossain mayor of the Chattogram City Company (CCC) after he filed a lawsuit seeking cancellation of the election outcomes over “vote rigging.”
The court docket of Electoral Tribunal and the Joint District and Lessons Resolve Mohammad Khairul Amin issued the decision at 12pm this day (1 October).
The court docket furthermore ordered the Election Commission put up a gazette on this regard interior the following ten days, said Recommend Arshad Hossain Asad, representing the plaintiff.
Dr Shahadat filed the lawsuit in opposition to the Election Commission and nine others abet in 24 February 2021 at some level of the CCC election.
Within the lawsuit, he made allegations of election rigging and sought to murder the consequences.
The defendants in the case incorporated the currently removed CCC mayor, M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, the regional election officer, the secretary to the election commissioner, and the manager election commissioner, among others.
None of their lawyers were divulge in court docket this day.
The case documents said that CCC officers started coordinating with Rezaul Karim following the allocation of the ‘boat’ symbol.
“This suggests that the election day was merely a formality. This is why, a vote tally has serene no longer been supplied. No printed copies from the EVMs were distributed from any polling web mutter online,” reads the anecdote.
“By the afternoon of the election day, handiest 4-6% of the votes had been solid. Nonetheless, the election outcomes confirmed that 22% of the votes had been solid,” it added.
As per the legit election outcomes, the ‘boat’ candidate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury obtained with 369,248 votes in the CCC election held on 27 January 2021.
His closest competitor, BNP mayoral candidate Shahadat Hossain, bought 52,489 votes below the ‘sheaf of paddy’ symbol.
