An Awami League-backed candidate is arrested for allegedly snatching ballots in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh during the Union Parishad election.

Awami League-backed lawyers’ panel wins a landslide victory in the Dhaka Bar Association elections, bagging 21 posts out of 27. The AL white panel’s Md Saidur Rahman Manik is elected as the president and Md Ayubur Rahman as general secretary.

The nomination of a BNP-blessed mayoral candidate in Chandpur is cancelled, paving the way for the election of the Awami League-backed aspirant unopposed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina terms the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections victory of democracy.

"It could have been an election in which people could merrily walk to the polling centres and pick their mayors. It could have been a return to true democracy. We could have run pictures of winners and losers embracing each other,the winners saying they want support of the losers and the losers promising their best for a better city."

Awami League-blessed mayoral aspirant Annisul Huq today presented a survey report on the problems of Dhaka North City Corporation and pledged to solve those if elected.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance alleges that the Election Commission is favouring the ruling party-backed candidates in the upcoming three city corporation elections