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Tahseen Bahar Shuchona, the daughter of Awami League MP AKM Bahauddin Bahar, has won the Cumilla City Corporation mayoral by-election marred by allegations of voter intimidation.
Cumilla Metropolitan Awami League’s Organising Secretary Shuchona, contesting with the bus symbol, has bagged 48,890 votes to defeat expelled BNP leader and two-time former mayor Monirul Haque Sakku by a huge margin of 21,993.
Returning Officer Md Farhad Hossain announced the results at Cumilla Zilla School after daylong balloting through electronic voting machines on Saturday.
Shuchona arrived at the school in the evening and expressed gratitude “for the overwhelming support she received from the people.”
She pledged to “reciprocate this love by working diligently and wholeheartedly, aiming to fulfil her duties with utmost dedication.”