BNP moves N�ganj race

Ansar members take electronic voting machines (EVMs) of Shaheed Zia Hall of different polling stations on Saturday about the much-touted Virgin Narayanganj City Corporation election. (Small photo) Rab members check vehicles for security reasons. all eyes are fixed on Narayanganj City Corporation that goes polls today amid high tension on her maiden voyage as BNP finishes supported opposition candidate after cooperation deploy army due to the Government?s the failure of the election of Commission?s.

Bangladesh nationalist party known in the early morning hours of today, that their candidate Mayor Taimur Alam Khandker withdrew it from the election campaign, one of the three leaders in the polls.

?The decision, resulting from the surveys race is fallen, because staff of the army not free and fair vote, ? BNP Deputy Abdullah Al-Noman told reporters in BNP Chairperson?s Gulshan Office provided.

Two other formidable candidate is ? ruling of Awami League backed AKM Shamim Osman and a seemingly dissident, Narayanganj municipality Mayor Dr. Selina Hayat Ivy ? now are vying for the first mayor of the NCC after its establishment in June of this year.

A total 403.189 voters of ? 203.344 men and women are 200.845 in the ? entitled practice their right to vote in 163 retrieve centers choose their elected candidates according to the Commission.

The query is expected from 20: 00 to 16: 00 without break place.

A holiday is declared Narayanganj today. The campaign for votes in the city ended on Friday midnight.

NCC survey is the last for the current election Commission, which under the leadership of Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda, the Office during the army-backed transitional Government approved and oversaw the parliamentary 2008 surveys.

EC-some 600-700-media creating and 200 poll observers, including the foreigners who crowded city on the polls, said public relations Asaduzzam Arzu.

Three other mayoral candidates are Bangladesh Shashantantra to Dolan of based Atikur Rahman Nannu MUNSHI, Atikul Islam Jibon and Mohammad Sharif.

Total 56 reserved (women) member of the candidate is the election to nine posts competition, while 250 General City Council are competing candidates for 27 posts.

The Election Commission has meanwhile completed the preparation of and were all elections brought materials including 450 electronic voting machines for the same number of polling booths and 58 additional machines, conduct the surveys in the city.

The survey materials were distributed from Shaheed Zia Hall of Town?s Chashara area and at the polling centres on Saturday.

Organiser Biswas Lutfur Rahman told reporters, ?100 percent preparation has been done. The law enforcement authorities continue to ? their patrol to safety of voters.

?Army staff not placed, but some 8500 security men, including police, rapid action battalion (RAB), coast guards and Ansar member provides security, ? he added.

Strict measures against offenders be taken during the polling, Biswas Lutfur warned.

Electronic voting Club (EVM) will be used in the polls despite opposition from two candidate countries ? Taimur Alam Khandkar and Dr. Selina Hayat Ivy.

Use of EVM in one or two query based demanded the two candidates.

The duo claimed that EVM floodgate of electoral fraud to open AL-backed candidate Shamim Osman.

EVM is used (ku) 27 boroughs in nine departments of City?s.

1, 48.629 Voters are caste their vote over 450 Ward EVMs in 58 centres for the retrieve, No 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 and 24.

The Commission has already used choice in the June 2010 EVM in a district of Chittagong City Corporation on an experimental basis.

The Commission has a plan for the introduction of EVM in the next general election with strong opposition from the main opposition BNP.

Centres poling of 163 were 131 by the Commission as listed per the allegations of various candidates as endangered.

Furthermore, polling installs CCTV in 20 centres to monitor the polling.

163 Presiding officials, 1217 Deputy Chairman officers and 2434 surveys are set with the elections.

Three liaison officers have in three ? of the Narayanganj SADAR Thana, Bandar Kadam Rasul and Siddhirganj ? as coordinators be laid.

The Commission has 36 judges including nine judicial prosecutors for the mobile courts lead to curb poll violence and anomalies.

Twenty-two security men, including six members of the police are each to protect call center and vulnerable centre ensures safety in each of 26 security guards.

Some 8,500 police officers, including 1400 Rab members, will be more than 400 policemen and 2,500 Ansars on the day of the election have been set.

In a press conference at the Chashara Shaheed Minar commanding officer from Rab-11 Col Mostafa Kamal said, ?A - total 1400 Rab staff be set on election day. Voters have no reason to fear. Rab members will play ? a neutral role..

Police and RAB have installed check posts at different strategic points of the city.

Source: daily-sun.com

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Share prices plunge despite frantic moves

 Frantic regulatory steps and the government recipe to stabilise share market could not rein in the downturn in share prices as most equities at Dhaka Stock Exchange fell on Tuesday following Monday?s margin recovery.

Retail investors, who had been protesting against the trend, however withdrew their fast-unto-death programme yesterday, demanding the prime minister?s intervention in bringing stability to the share market.

In another development, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday withdrew himself from the committee formed to advise the government on bringing changes in the share market.

?I will not be its convener,? he said a day after the Banking Division under his ministry had issued a notification on forming the advisory committee.

Mizanur Rashid Chowdhury, president of Bangladesh Share Market Investors? Unity Council, announced the suspension of their week-long protest programme at a press briefing. Retail investors staged a fast-unto-death demonstration on Sunday in front of the DSE, protesting the continuous plunge in share prices.

Driven away by the police on Monday, they held their programme at the Jatiya Press Club, but the law enforcers prevented them from staying there yesterday.

Later, the protesters went to the Central Shaheed Minar to continue their hunger strike, but the police foiled their attempt there too.

The police picked up Mizanur Rahman, publication secretary of the organisation.

A large number of law enforcers, including Rapid Action Battalion, were deployed in front of the DSE and in adjacent areas to avert any untoward incident.

Experts said market instability continued because of a lack of investor?s confidence since the regulatory and government measures could not stop downslide in share prices.

The DGEN was volatile during the first hour of yesterday?s trading session and it gained about 40 points within the first 10 minutes. However, the index started falling afterwards, finally closing at 5,307 points after losing 2.15 percent or 116 points.

The DSE broader all share price index DSI also shed 95 points or 2.08 percent to end at 4,453 points while the DSE-20 retraced 1.40 percent or 54 points to finish the session at 3,783 points.

Out of 258 issues traded on Tuesday only 18 advanced, 234 declined and the rest six remained unchanged.

All the sectors went down with non-banking financial institutions losing 3.23 percent, banks 2.05 percent, telecommunication 1.74 percent, pharmaceuticals 1.45 percent and power 1.44 percent.

The total turnover value stood at Tk 2.1 billion, 7.8 percent lower than the last session?s, which is the lowest after 25 January 2011.

Beximco Limited topped the turnover chart with a value of Tk 78.9 million. Titas Gas was the top traded share with a turnover value of Tk 86.5 million.

Muhith?s withdrawal

Securities and Exchange Commission chief M Khairul Hossain on Monday had named Muhith as the head of the advisory committee formed to monitor the share market.

?The committee will be led by someone else,? Muhith told reporters after a meeting with TV and radio artistes at his Secretariat office yesterday.

Experts had criticised the move to keep Muhith in the body, saying an adviser and the implementation authority could not be the same person.

Muhith observed that the share market issue has been politicised.

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Abdul Moyeen Khan, Communist Party of Bangladesh central leader Sazzad Zahir Chandan, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president ASM Abdur Rob and general secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, and Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman Andalib Rahman Partha attended a protest staged by hundreds of investors a couple of days ago.

Refuting Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta?s comment, he said it is the DSE, not the government, which appointed the DSE directors, including Salman F Rahman.

Suranjit had criticised the role of suspected market manipulators, saying the ?cats? have been tasked with safeguarding the ?dry-fish?.

The finance minister did not, however, clear his position about the SEC chairman?s recommendation for allowing commercial banks to invest their profits they had made during the share market boom last year.

He said Bangladesh Bank has blocked the fund.

Source: daily-sun.com

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