Meherpur Municipality poll on 25 April

Meherpur Pouro Election Tomorrow (25 April)

Meherpur Pouro poll is scheduled to be held tomorrow (25 April) after many speculation and imagination. The candidates are found  passing busy times and moving from door to doors of the voters to win them. They have expressed their satisfaction over the present poll situation at the same time they expected such acceptable situation on the polling date.

After many speculation and imagination the election of Meherpur Pourosova is going to hold on 25 April. All the areas of the municipality  have been  covered by posters of the candidates. Peoples are found  gossiping in the tea stalls, markets, bus stand,  offices regarding much cherished pouro poll. The candidates of Mayoral posts including the councilors are found moving door to doors to win the minds of the voters giving different commitments of development. The voters told that they would  cast their votes for the honest, sincere, free from corruption and fit candidates. All the candidates expressed their satisfaction seeing the present environment of the election at the same time the BNP backed candidate and the independent candidates expressed their grumblings for the polling date.

The pourosova was established in the year 1869 by the British and it was upgraded as first class pourosova in 2001. Four candidates for the post of Mayor are vying. Mahfuzur Rahman Riton is the Awami League nominated candidate in vote race with boat symbol while BNP backed candidate Jahangir Biswas with paddy sheaf, independent candidates sitting mayor for 24 years is on the race taking symbol coconut tree and  Nisan Saber with mobile phone.

Apart from this some 58 candidates for the general councilor posts while 15 women candidates are contesting for reserved woman seats. Total voters are 30 thousands 965 in which 15 thousands 233 are male and 15,732 are female voters.  

Rafiqul Alam, President, Meherpur District Development Forum who is the member of election monitoring team informed that he did not find any major violations of election code of conduct. Some minor violations were found that mitigated after exchanging views with the mayoral candidates in the office of District Election Officer a few days back.

Rokonuzzaman, Returning Officer also the District Election Officer told to The Independent  that in the mean time all arrangements have been completed in order to hold a fair pouro election. He sought all kinds of cooperation from the voters and the candidates to present an acceptable poll to all.

It may be mentioned there that it was supposed to hold the election in 2004 but due to litigation with the apex court in connection with  periphery it held in 2011 after 12 years. Later, it was again  suspended in December, 2015 and 2017 for the same causes.