Online Desk:
The main opposition party in the parliament, which is known as the stronghold of the Jatiya Party, won the election in Rangpur, which was the main opposition party in the parliament or the Aomi League, the main rival BNP in the country, did not care in Thursday's vote.
After three weeks of sleepless campaign, the people of Rangpur voted on Thursday in the mood of the festival, the counting of votes started after 4 pm, and after a while the results of different centers came in. The more the same, the more the results of the vote became one-sided.
In the 193 centers, the candidate of the Jatiya Party, Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa, has received a total of 160,489 votes. In the second position, the candidate of Jati Awtami League Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu did not get half of his votes. He got 62 thousand 400 votes.
Returning Officer Subhash Chandra Sarkar announced the election results on Thursday night from the Nisanatran room set up in the police community hall, but before the official results were announced, the supporters of the three candidates came to know the results, and the more the night went on, the more joy and joy among the supporters of the national party, the more the Awami League and BNP supporters continued to be happy.
In the polls in Rangpur, however, BNP has never done well in the recent times, so it was expected that the main competition was between the boat and the plow. But the voter turnout is much higher than the last few years.
In the 2012 elections, these three candidates were also voted for the vote. But then they did not vote in the party symbol. As a result, they have to rely on personal charisma, but this time the vote is between the boat of Aoatami League, the grain of rice and the plow of the nation party.
If you compare with the last election, let's see that Jhantu's vote The votes have been significantly reduced and the votes have been much higher, but five years ago, BNP's acquittal was withdrawn from the election on the ballot. This time he got a vote in the last year.
In the first election of 2012, Awami League-backed candidate Sarfuddin Ahmad Jhantu was elected by 16,255 votes, his closest rival, the leader of the Jati Party, the leader of the Jati Party, got 77,805 votes.
Among the recent elections, the polls in Rangpur have been the most peaceful and festive in the aftermath of the Naratanganj city elections, there was no disturbance in any of the 193 centers, there was no complaint of fake voting, there was no complaint of fake voting, blocking the voters or scaring them. There was no evidence that it was being done.
On the morning of the polls, Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu of Aomi League and Mostafizar Rahman of Jati Party were satisfied with the polling environment, but BNP Kawsar Zaman Babla complained that his agents were not allowed to enter some centers, but after that he did not make any complaints but later held a press conference and rejected the results.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi complained that BNP agents were not allowed to enter the center and the Election Commission is giving benefits to the Awami League and the Jati Party.
However, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has denied the BNP's complaint, he said, saying that all the votes were peaceful and the Commission was satisfied with this.
Another Election Commissioner, Rafiqul Islam, termed the vote as a model election, he said, ‘We have told you about choosing a model.’ A model has been elected in a festive atmosphere in Rangpur.’
When the results of the evening started coming, the general secretary of Awami League, Obatadul Quader, admitted that the defeat in the polls in Rangpur, but the people won the peaceful elections in the Awami League.
Jahangir Kabir Nanak, another leader of Aomi League, said in another press conference in the afternoon that this election is completely fair, they do not know why BNP is complaining about rigging.
He also commented that an election commissioner had known about the 65 to 70 percent votes in Rangpur after the polls, but the overall calculation will be known after the full results.
There are 390, 93,894 voters in the election, 211 and 33 general ORD councilors and 65 for 11 reserved councilors, totaling 393,894, including 196,000, 256, and 199,000, 196,638.
The security guards have been imposing in Rangpur for the past one week around the election, and the administration had ordered outsiders to take the city and the hotels were instructed not to take anyone outside the constituency.
Central leaders of Awami League and BNP have visited Rangpur to campaign in this election. I have been appealing to the voters to choose their candidate, but the voters have disappointed them.
In the polls, Bijji Mostafizar Rahman Mustafa told reporters, ‘I thank the people of Rangpur. I will give my life to fulfill the election manifesto that I have given to make Rangpur a livable city.’
Mustafa said, ‘I myself will not do corruption, I will not give anyone the opportunity to commit corruption.’