Polls to 117 Upazilas in 25 districts of the country will open at 8am on Sunday. Electronic voting machines, or EVMs, will be utilised in four Sadar Upazilas during the third phase of the staggered polls. We have also assigned additional executive magistrates to these areas.”Though 127 Upazilas were scheduled to hold elections in this third phase, voting to four local councils have been postponed, he added. Among them, polls to Chattogram’s Lohagori and Cox’s Bazar’s Kutubdia Upazilas were barred by court orders. Voting to the Narsingdi Sadar and Cox’s Bazar Sadar Upazilas has been shifted to the fourth phase and is scheduled for Mar 31.

Source: bd News24 March 23, 2019 20:15 UTC