Officials withdraw after signing results before voting ends in Chittagong 14 constituencies

Staff Correspondent

In Chittagong-14 (Chandanaish-Satkania) constituency, there was an incident of taking advance signatures on the results list. The EC has withdrawn the presiding officer Faridul Alam over the incident.

However, many believe that such incidents have occurred in more remote centers of this constituency.

The BNP candidate and his supporters alleged that the withdrawn officer was working for Jamaat supporters and Jamaat candidates.

The incident took place at Ali Ahmed Pranhari High School in Uttar Satkania (partial) of the constituency around 12:30 pm on Thursday. Tension spread when Faridul Alam, the presiding officer of the polling station, took advance signatures on the results list.

There are allegations that he was doing this work on behalf of a political party.

At that time, an army team quickly reached the spot. Voting was suspended for a while after the incident. Later, the on-duty Assistant Returning Officer Khandaker Mahmudul Hasan reached the spot and withdrew the presiding officer, and voting resumed at around 1:30 pm.

Jasim Uddin, the candidate for the paddy sheaf in that constituency, said that the presiding officer had committed a crime by taking advance signatures on the results list. He was working for a Jamaat candidate. Due to this, tension spread at the polling station. The common people became angry.