{"id":1236,"date":"2014-02-19T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:25:50","slug":"8-candidates-boycott-upazila-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/8-candidates-boycott-upazila-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"8 candidates boycott upazila polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight BNP-backed candidates boycotted their polls in Gauranadi upazila of Barisal and Shailkupa upazila of Jhenidah district on Wednesday alleging ouster of their agents and voters at different centres.<br \/>\nPABNA<br \/>\nA BNP-backed chairman candidate in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna, announced withdrawal of his candidacy alleging that the ruling party men are obstructing his voters and agents at the polling booths.<br \/>\nProtesting the incident, BNP also called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the upazila for Thursday in protest against the incident.<br \/>\nZahurul Islam, BNP office secretary of the district unit, confirmed this to banglamail.<br \/>\nBarisal<br \/>\nSix pro-BNP chairman and vice-chairman candidates boycotted the election in Gauranadi upazila bringing allegation that the ruling party candidates were obstructing their followers from casting their votes.<br \/>\nThe candidates include: BNP-supported chairman candidate Abul Hossain Mia, two of its rebel chairman candidates \u2014 Lokman Khan and Nur-e-Alam \u2014 vice-chairman candidate Mehidi Hasan and rebel candidate Sharif Zahid Sazzad and vice chairman candidate Taslima Begum.<br \/>\nThe candidates declared their election boycott at a joint press briefing around 09:45am.<br \/>\nJhenidah<br \/>\nPro-BNP chairman candidate Rakibul Hasan of Shailkupa upazila boycotted the election alleging that the supporters of ruling party candidates obstructed his supporters from casting their votes.<br \/>\nThe residents of 97 upazila parishads started casting their votes at 8am on Wednesday in the first phase with participation of candidates of several parties, including Awami League and BNP.<br \/>\nOverall 432 candidates will contest for chairmen, 513 for vice chairmen, and 329 for vice chairwomen in 97 upazilas.<br \/>\nThe voting continued till 4:00pm without any break.<br \/>\nMoreover, Wednesday has been declared as a public holiday by the government in the polling areas.<br \/>\nThe army and regular law enforces have been deployed in the upazilas to maintain law and order.<br \/>\nThere are 1, 64, 78,172 voters, 6,995 polling stations, and 43,290 booths in the 98 upazilas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/8-candidates-boycott-upazila-polls\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight BNP-backed candidates boycotted their polls in Gauranadi upazila of Barisal and Shailkupa upazila of Jhenidah district on Wednesday alleging ouster of their agents and voters at different centres. 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