The nearly 525,000 voters of the Narayanganj City Corporation have begun turning up at polling centres in numbers as the city election kicked off festively on Sunday, bdnews24.com reports.
In some areas, people lined up to cast their ballots by Electronic Voting Machine, or EVM, before the polls opened at 192 centres across the city at 8 am.
As the day wore on, the queues outside the centres grew longer. There were a significant number of women voters lined up as well.
Similar atmospheres were observed at the polling centres at Islamia Kamil Madrasa in Ward-13, the Shishubag School in Ward-16’s Deobhog, the Narayanganj Adarsha Boys and Girls School and Primary School, and the Deobghog Morgan’ Girls School and College.
Awami League candidate Salina Hayat Ivy will cast her vote at the Shishubag School centre.
The centre has five voting booths for women and five for men. The polling centres occupy the first and second floors of the three-storey building.
Voters were lined up outside before polls opened. Ivy, who has served Narayanganj as mayor for the past 10 years, came to observe the turnout at the start of the day.
Stores in the area were closed and traffic in the area was limited, but voters were allowed to travel to the centre by rickshaw or autorickshaw.
