Election campaign materials not yet removed

Election campaign materials, including posters, banners, graffiti and festoons, are still visible at different places in Dhaka city even a day after the deadline to remove them.

On November 8, the Election Commission (EC) directed all political parties to remove the campaign materials by November 15 as the 11th parliamentary election is scheduled for December 30.

The polls conducting authorities later extended the deadline by three days to November 18, which ended at midnight last.

Mohammadpur, Shyamoli, Farmgate, Segunbagicha, Purana Paltan, Sher-e-Bangla Nagor are among the places our correspondents have visited today and found the campaign materials still in place.

Most of the campaign materials put up and pasted in the areas are in the name of the ruling Awami League hopefuls and their well-wishers.

The rest of the campaign materials still on display belong to hopefuls of BNP, HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party and other political parties.

EC secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed told the FE that the EC asked the political parties to remove the campaign materials at their own expense.

Now that campaigners did not follow the instruction, they will face legal action, including fines, he said, adding that the EC has already started mobile court drives, to this end, in the city today.

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