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Sakku wins Comilla city polls

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Published: 14:50, 30 March 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Sakku wins Comilla city polls

Staff Correspondent: BNP backed mayor candidate Monirul Haque Sakku has won the Comilla City Corporation (CCC) polls on Thursday.

He defeated Awami League nominated candidate Anjum Sultana Seema by a margin of over ten thousand votes.

According to the unofficial result announced by the returning officer Sakku got 68,948 votes, while his nearest candidate Anjum Sultana Seema got 58,863 votes.

A total of 63.92 percent votes were cast in 101 polling centres out of 103. Besides, voting at the rest two centres has been suspended amid allegation of irregularities.

Earlier, in the morning, the polls began at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm amid tight security across the municipality.

A total of 207,566 voters 102,447 males and 105,119 females were expected to exercise their voting rights to elect their city mayor, 27 general councilors and nine women councilors.


risingbd/Comilla/Mar 30, 2017/Mohiuddin/Nasim

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