But the Awami League said the BNP was “out to mar the election through falsification because it knows it is losing”. There are 31 wards for general councillors and 10 reserved for women in Khulna City. “The situation in Khulna polls would not have been what it is if the army was deployed,” he said at a news conference at the party headquarters later in the night. They say the Khulna city polls were “almost fair and acceptable but not as much as the recent elections to Comilla and Rangpur cities”. A voter uses an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot in Khulna City Corporation on Tuesday.

Source: bd News24 May 15, 2018 14:21 UTC