BNP-nominated mayoral candidates will gain victory in 80 percent municipalities if the polls are held in a free and fair manner, the party’s Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy says.

Overwhelmed by the vociferous postmortem of the city corporation polls, two footfalls on the cityscape have gone unnoticed, unappreciated, as though coming and going on stealth.

THE handsome, charismatic and successful young men join hands and smile for the perfect photo.

IT is disquieting to see that the media was conspicuously barred from properly covering the city polls.

STUFFING of ballot boxes whether in national or local elections is nothing new in Bangladesh.

Experts and observers share their views on the electoral proceedings of the City Corporation Elections and their implications for the political climate of the country with The Daily Star.

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.