Selina Hayat Ivy, one of the three heavyweight mayoral candidates in Narayanganj, on Sunday alleged that there were some 1,000 fake voters in Ward No.12 and feared such fake voters might also be in other Wards of the city.
Ivy, also a ruling Awami League leader, handed over the list of fake voters to the chief election Commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, at a views-exchange meeting at Shaheed Zia Hall in the city.
‘There are some 1,000 names enlisted as the voters at Chanmari slum, in different areas of new Chashara and Jamtala slum in Ward No. 12. But we did not find them during an inspection,’ Ivy made the allegation to the CEC.
‘There is no holding number against the names of the fake voters. I now doubt whether the voters’ lists of other Wards of the city corporation contain such fake voters,’ she said.
‘I would request you to investigate into the matter as early as possible to assure us that those are not fake voters,’ she called on the CEC.
Talking to New Age, district election officer Farhad Hossain said the voters whose names were enlisted in the electoral roll have now shifted their residence and that is why Ivy could not find them in the respective area.
Asked how the Election Commission would stop false voting using the identity of those voters, he said, ‘The poling agents will have to identify the real voters.’
The elections to the country’s 7th city corporation
will be held on October
30 where a total of 4,04,189 voters will elect the mayor for the city and the councillors for their respective areas.
Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1
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