Two people were arrested for influencing voting by entering the "secret voting area" at two different centres during the Gazipur City Corporation polls.

The time for electioneering in the Gazipur City Corporation election ended at midnight with very little campaigning done by candidates running for the mayor’s office.

The Election Commission today said polls to five city corporations -- Barishal, Gazipur, Khulna, Rajshahi, and Sylhet -- would be held between May 23 to June 29.

BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed terms the Gazipur City Corporation polls as an acid test for both the government and the Election Commission and warns the government of dire consequences if ‘Khulna-style’ election is held there on June 26.

An Awami League leader of Savar upazila has played tricks on a High Court bench to get the Gazipur City Corporation polls stayed for three months.

Police have detained BNP Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman and several other party leaders near the home of Hasan Uddin Sarkar, the BNP mayor candidate in the Gazipur City Corporation polls.

The Election Commission has decided not to deploy army in local government elections, including in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls scheduled to be held on May 15.

BNP leader Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain claims that the Election Commission will be violating the constitution if they allow lawmakers to campaign for the city corporation elections.

The BNP has nominated new faces as mayor candidates in the Khulna and Gazipur city corporation polls, scheduled for May 15.