Risingbd to update polls results from its booth

Staff Correspondent: The voting for the 11^th parliamentary election has been held across the country simultaneously.

The balloting began at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm amid huge enthusiasm and festivity with 10, 42, 38,677 voters exercising their voting rights to elect 299 members of parliament out of 300. The election in Gaibandha-3 constituency has been postponed due to the death of a candidate and voting for the seat will be held on January 27.

risingbd.com, one of the popular online news portals in Bangladesh, has installed a ‘special polling booth’ in the Election Commission Secretariat at Agargaon in the capital.

The news portal has been given permission to cover all the information and news relating to the elections.

The EC sources said 39 special polling booths have been set up in the EC secretariat so that different print, electronic and online media can collect election related news and information immediately. Key television channels, different Bangla and English dailies and top online news portals are among the media covering the election related news. risingbd.com is one of them to do the job.

A special team comprising Hasibul Islam Mithun and Ahmed Nur is in the charge of the polling booth to provide the updates about the polls.

A total of 1,861 candidates are contesting the elections. Among them, 1,733 are from political parties and 128 independents.

A total of 10, 42, 38,677 voters, including 5, 25, 72,365 male and 5,16,66,312 female, will cast their votes at 206,477 polling booths of the 40,183 voting centers in 299 constituencies across the country.

The EC will take votes using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at all polling booths in six constituencies for the first time. The constituencies are- Dhaka-6 and 13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2.

Following the new electoral rules, a total of 39 registered political parties are vying for the polls.

About 608,000 members of law enforcement agencies, 66 returning officers, will perform their responsibilities to conduct the election across the country.

A total of 4,0183 presiding officers, 20, 7,312 assistant presiding officers and 4,14,624 polling officers have been appointed for conducting the election while about 1,328 executive magistrates will be deployed and 640 judicial magistrates will work in 122 electoral inquiry committees during the polls.


risingbd/Dhaka/Dec 30, 2018/Hasan/AI