18 councilor candidates’ nomination cancelled

Ahead of only 30 days from the Sylhet City Corporation election scheduled to be held on June 15, scrutiny of the submitted nomination papers started on Wednesday.Five mayor candidates including three from BNP, One from AL and Jamaat declared as valid after scrutiny on Wednesday.
The valid Mayor candidates are Bador Uddin Ahmed Kamran, out going Mayor, city AL president and AL-led 14 party alliances backed candidate, Ariful Haque Chy, Ex
secretary of Sylhet City BNP. Abdul Kaium Jalali Ponky secretary of Sylhet City BNP, Shamsuzzaman Jaman Ass. secretary of Sylhet City BNP and Aahsanul Mahbub Jubair, Amir of Sylhet City Jamaat.
On other hand 18 nomination papers out 145 general councilors and two out of 9 reserved female councilors. The candidates, whom nomination papers were cancelled named as Naznin Akter Kona, candidate of reserved female councilor in
ward-7, Liza Akhter word No.9. General councilor candidate of ward -1, Azizul Huq Manik, word NO-3 Abdur Rob Hazari, word no-5 Rishad Ahmed Rubel, word No-7, Aftab
Hussain Khan, word NO-10 Mustafa Kamal, word No-11 Shohidor rahman shahed, word NO-14 Shamsul Alam, Serajil Islam, Habibur Rahman, Salman Chy. word NO-19,
Shawkot Amin, Abdur Rahman Jamil, word NO-22 Dider Hussain, word NO-24, Suhel Ahmed repon, word  NO-26 Bahar Uddin and Amirul Islam. Defaulting loan, faults
in filling forms, causes the cancellation of nominations papers of those four candidates and scrutiny would be completed on Thursday, Sylhet regional election commissioner
and returning officer for SCC election. S.M Ajharul Haque said after scrutiny of the submitted nomination papers on May 15 and 16, final list of candidates would be
published on May 26 ending withdrawal deadline.
However probable candidates, especially the ward councilorcandidates started propagation by posturing, publishing advertisement, hoisting
banners of greetings, attending social functions, gathering and personally contacting peoples of their localities.

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