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CCC ELECTION

Professionals join campaign today

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg
Election campaigning for the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls is set to reach a fever pitch as professional bodies join in rallying support for the mayoral candidates.
Chattagram Nagorik Committee (Chittagong citizens' committee) starts campaigning for its candidate
ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury by a meeting at the Ladies Club today. In the meeting, the committee will exchange views on the development of Chittagong city with people from across the professional spectrum.
Mohiuddin Chowdhury, also the incumbent mayor and general secretary of Chittagong city unit
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Awami League, is contesting the May 9 CCC polls under the banner of Chattagram Nagorik Committee for the third consecutive time.
The committee comprising professionals was formed to announce Mohiuddin Chowdhury as its mayoral candidate for the CCC polls in 1994. Noted social scientist Professor Dr Anupam Sen is its current chairman while Mahmud-Ul-Islam, former chairman of Chittagong Port Authority, and Dr Abu Yusuf Alam, former Pro-VC of Chittagong University, are cochairman and secretary.
Like in the past, Nagorik Committee has been campaigning for Mohiuddin right from the beginning. It already held a public rally at Laldighi Maidan on March 29 and announced Mohiuddin Chowdhury as its candidate.
On the other hand, Chittagong Mohanagar Gano Oikya Parishad, a professional forum supporting the ruling alliance-nominated mayoral candidate Mir Mohammad Nasir, is running a door-to-door mass contact programme.
The Parishad yesterday carried out mass contact at Lalkhan Bazar area for Mir Nasir, who is also state
minister for civil aviation and tourism and president of Chittagong city unit BNP.
Chittagong University Pro-VC Dr Md Shamsuddin and Professor Dr Hasan Mohammad are convenor and member-secretary of the Parishad.
Leaders of the Parishad yesterday for the first time campaigned in public. They, however, already did a lot of leafleting for Mir Nasir. Parishad's leaflets highlight mainly comparisons between what Mir Nasir and Mohiuddin did during their stints as city mayor.
Mir Nasir while addressing a rally at Bakolia yesterday said that Bakolia, which is widely regarded as a stronghold of BNP, was kept out of development programmes while its people were deprived of civic amenities in the last ten years. He said that if elected, he would upgrade Bakolia to a sub-city. Bakolia with some two lakh voters has always been a deciding factor in the CCC polls.
ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury yesterday conducted his election campaign at Enayet Bazar area.
He urged the locals to elect him to ensure development of the city is continued.