Dhaka:The Election Commission (EC) has published a gazette announcing BNP candidate Shahadat Hossain as the Mayor of Chattogram City Corporation more than three years after the election ended based on the opinion of the Law Ministry after the court verdict.
EC officials confirmed the matter on Tuesday (October 8).
Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election results, BNP mayoral candidate was Dr. Shahadat Hossain. The court declared him Mayor on Tuesday (October 01) in the case filed by Dr. Shahadat Hossain. At the same time, he instructed the Election Commission secretary to publish the gazette within the next 10 days. On that day at 12 noon, the court of Chattogram Joint District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Khairul Amin gave this verdict as an election tribunal.
The complaint that was made in the case, on February 24, 2021, the mayoral candidate Dr. Shahadat Hossain filed a case.
According to the results announced by the Chattogram City Corporation on January 27, 2021, the boat candidate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury was declared the winner after getting 3 lakh 69 thousand 248 votes. According to the declaration, his closest rival BNP's mayoral candidate Shahadat Hossain got 52 thousand 489 votes in the symbol of paddy.
Meanwhile, the EC published the gazette at night announcing Shahadat Hossain as the winner.
In the gazette signed by EC Secretary Shafiul Azim, it is said, "By the order dated 1st October 2024 of Election Tribunal Case No-02/2024 filed in the learned Election Tribunal and Joint District Judge, 1st Court, Chattogram, the Mayor in Chattogram City Corporation Election held on 27/01/2021 By canceling the declaration of election of the candidate of 'Boat' symbol, defendant No. 1, Mr. Md. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, and declaring Shahadat Hossain, the candidate of 'Sheaf of Paddy' symbol, as the elected mayor, the Bangladesh Gazette published on January 31, 2021 in the extra issue of page 1787, column 1, no. Instead of 'Md. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Father-Harun or Rashid Chowdhury, Address-811/A, Bahuddar Bari, Dakghar-Chandgaon 4212, Thana-Chandgaon, Chattogram' written in column 2 against the serial number, 'Shahadat Hossain, Father: Ahmadur Rahman, Address: Rahman Mansion, 110/111 D.C. Road, Baklia, Chattogram' and the words 'Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP' have been replaced in column 3.