Returning Officer and Senior District Election Officer Khan Abi Shahanur Khan has canceled the nomination of two councilor candidates due to mistakes in the signatures of on percent voters in the Patuakhali Municipal Elections to be held on March 9. On Thursday at 11 am in the auditorium of the office of the district election officer, verification was held in the presence of mayor, councilor and reserved councilor candidate proposers and supporters. At the time, there were inconsistencies in the voter list given among the 6 mayoral candidates, Marorzia Akhter Sumi and Md. Enayet Hossain’s nomination was cancelled. In addition, the current mayor Mohiuddin Ahmed, former mayor and the organizing secretary of the district Awami League Dr. The nominations of Shafiqul Islam, Abul Kalam Azad and Nasir Uddin Khan were declared valid. Among the 43 candidates for the post of councilor, the nomination of the current councilor Nizamul Haque of Ward No. 1 due to default and Al-Amin, councilor candidate of Ward No. 2, has been canceled due to concealment of information in the affidavit. The nominations of all 15 reserved women councilor candidates have been declared valid.
Canceled mayoral candidate Marzia Akhtar Sumi said, “My nomination has been canceled, I will not contest.” Current Mayor Mohiuddin Ahmed is my husband, his nomination has been validated. He will choose, I will support him.
Md. Enayet Hossain said, there was a mistake in one number of N ID. I will definitely appeal this.
There are 50,699 voters in 9 wards of Patuakhali Municipality.
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