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CCC Candidates

Shujan for probe into wealth info

Staff Correspondent
Citizen rights organisation Shushashoner Jonney Nagarik (Shujan) yesterday demanded probe into the information furnished by the candidates for Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) elections.
"We see a lot of inconsistencies in the information provided by the candidates to Election Commission. This requires investigation," said
Shujan President Prof MuzafferAhmad.
Mayoral candidate ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury declared that he had neat wealth ofTk 1.27 crore, paidTk 10,900 as income tax while his annual family expenditure Tk 1.45 lakh (some TK 12,000 a month), Shujan said at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity.
Another mayoral candidate for the CCC elections Mohammad Manjur Alam mentioned that his neat wealth was Tk 18.68 crore, total loan amount Tk 163.01 crore, which suggests a huge income, and paidTk 1.45 lakh as income tax, said Shujan.
ABM Mohiuddin is nominated by the ruling Awami League while Manjur Alam by BNPin the polls.
During the press beefing, Shujan presented compiled information provided by eight mayoral candidates, 247 general councillor candidates, and 59 preserved women councillors contesting the
CCC polls on June 17.
It is good that as per the electoral rules the candidates submit seven types of information, including educational qualification, profession, wealth, loan and tax statements and cases filed against them. But many of them do not provide precise information while many keep from providing certain kind of information, said Muzaffer Ahmad.
Shujan Secretary Badiul Alam Majumder said of the eight mayoral candidates four — Md Ibrahim, Syed Sajjad Zoha, Jaan-e-Alam, Md Rafiqul Alam — did not provide any information on income tax while many candidates for general councillor posts their asset value.
He said five of the mayoral and 189 of 247 councillor candidates mentioned their profession as businessmen while the rest as service holders, law practitioners and others. Of the 59 reserved women councillor candidates, 32 are housewives.
"This implies that business-
men are participating more in the CCC polls as it happened in the parliamentary elections," Majumder added.
He noted that of the may-oral candidates ABM Mohiuddin has 14 cases against him while Solaiman Alam Seth one. At least 102 general councillor aspirants face cases and of them 13 face murder cases.
Prof Muzaffer said the women councillor candidates, who presented themselves as housewives, should furnish their husbands and children's status for a good analysis of their competence and honesty.
Asked if Shujan found any qualitative change in the CCC polls, Badiul Alam said this time there is no showdown or public sufferings and no posters on walls, which is good.
Columnist Syed Abul Maksud and former adviser to a caretaker government ASM Shahjahan also spoke at the press conference.
Shujan will arrange at least 12 programmes where the candidates will face the voters.