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Indiscriminate Display of Posters and Banners

Mayor seeks EC permission to clean Ctg city

Staff Correspondent
In an unusual bid to keep the city clean, Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Ahmed has appealed to the Election Commission (EC) seeking permission to stop indiscriminate display of posters and banners for the forthcoming city corporation election.
The EC however is in dilemma whether it will allow the mayor to take action in this regard as the electoral code of conduct does not allow stopping display of posters. The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has consulted about the issue with other election commissioners, according to sources.
Mohiuddin, who is contesting in the election scheduled on May 9, also proposed to set up billboards at different points of 41 wards under the CCC for putting up posters of the contesting candidates, sources said quoting the mayor's letter sent to the CEC on March 20.
The mayor proposed to set up
41 billboards for the campaign of the mayoral candidates and five billboards in each ward for the ward commissioner candidates after the filing of nomination papers by the contenders.
Defending his proposal the mayor said random display of posters and banners by a number of candidates made the city dirty. "It's also a violation of the City Corporation Ordinance," he said in his letter.
The CEC has not yet responded to the mayor's letter. "The code of conduct does not allow setting up of such billboards for election campaign. So, we can't allow the mayor to take action against displaying posters by any contenders," an election commissioner told The Daily Star requesting anonymity. "The local government ministry has formulated the codes of conduct. So, it is the ministry's jurisdiction whether it will amend the rules allowing such initiatives," he said.
The EC secretariat officials however referring to the City
Corporation Ordinance said the mayor has the power to take action against indiscriminate display of posters in a bid to cleanse the city.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday Mayor ABM Mohiuddin said he is determined to keep the city clean. "Nobody will be allowed to make the city dirty in the name of election campaign. I myself will not launch my electoral campaign through posters," the mayor said over telephone adding, "I will urge all the contenders to help me in keeping the city clean."
Our Chittagong office said although the date of submission of nomination is April 11, a number of prospective candidates have already started printing posters and banners for their campaign for ward commissioners' posts. A few contenders have already put up posters on different walls and buildings and hung banners at different points in the city.