Three days before the voting in two suspended polling stations in Sylhet City Corporation polls, BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury on Thursday submitted a list of dead voters to the Election Commission.
Ariful met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital around 12:40 pm, and also submitted the list of expatriate voters who are now staying abroad.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, he said, "I've been here to submit the list of dead voters so that no one can give their votes. I have also submitted the list of voters who're staying abroad, and urged the Commission to take step so that these votes are not cast."
Ariful said the CEC assured him of taking necessary steps in this regard.
According to his lists, under the two suspended voting centres, there are 118 dead voters while 180 expatriate ones who are now staying abroad.
Besides, 3 voters migrated to another place leaving the area.
He said as 301 people will not be able to cast their votes, his victory is for sure.
The re-election to two polling stations, where voting was postponed during July 30 SCC polls will be held on August 11 (Saturday).
On July 1, the Election Commission fixed the date for re-election to Gazi Burhanuddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School and Hobinandi Government Primary School centres.
There are 2,221 voters at Gazi Burhanuddin Garam Dewan Government Primary School centre while 2,566 at Hobinandi Government Primary School one.
BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury has taken a lead of 4,626 votes in 132 centres out of total 134 in the polls. He bagged 90,496 votes while Awami League's Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran polled 85,870, reports UNB.
The BNP candidate now needs only 81 votes in the re-election to the postponed centres having a total of 4,787 voters.