Repeated show-cause notices, warnings of punitive actions and even expulsions from the organisation have failed to deter Awami League leaders from participating in the local government polls without the party tickets.

Election Commission has issued a show-cause notice to Md Azhar Ali, Awami League-nominated chairman candidate for Dhamrai’s Sombhag Union Parishad election, for threatening independent candidates during campaign.

The third phase of the union parishad elections will be held on November 28, Election Commission announced yesterday.

Election to 1,007 union parishads and 10 municipalities will be held on November 28.

The Election Commission will be formed through a search committee, Law Minister Anisul Huq reiterated today.

If BNP is committed to the country’s people, it should participate in local government elections, said LGRD Minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday.

The surprise win of an alleged gangster as the councillor of Ward-16 in Chattogram has shocked many residents of the city.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the next Election Commission would be constituted through a search committee as formulating a law for its formation is not possible right now because of time constraints and Covid-19. 

Three, out of four, mayor candidates have boycotted Rajshahi’s Godagari municipality election -- bringing allegation of violating electoral code of conduct by the ruling party candidate.

Voting for by-election of Sreemangal Upazila Parishad, under Moulvibazar district, began at 8am today in a festive atmosphere.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the current government will not interfere in the next national election.

The second phase of the Union Parishad (UP) elections will be held on November 11. A total of 848 union parishads will go to the polls in the second phase.

The High Court yesterday stayed for two months the process for holding elections to the executive posts of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) on charge of irregularities in the voter-list.

Rail communications from Dhaka to other districts remained halted for around one and an half hour as some ruling Awami League activists set up fires on a railway line demanding punishment of Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Zahangir Alam.

The ruling Awami League finds itself in a strange predicament over local body polls.

Changes in the current electoral system -- in which many are being elected unopposed and voters are showing apathy towards voting -- will not come unless there is a consensus among political parties, said election commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday.

Ruling Awami League candidates won 76 percent chairman posts in Monday’s 156 union parishad elections.

At least three people were killed and dozens others injured in clashes between supporters of ruling Awami League’s chairman candidates and party rebels during the final part of the first phase of union parishad polls yesterday.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said Bangladesh needs no assistance from the United Nations (UN) to arrange elections since the Election Commission (EC) is capable enough to hold fair and transparent polls.

Two people were killed in violence during union parishad elections in Maheshkhali and Kutubdia upazilas of Cox’s Bazar today.