EC publishes gazette declaring Ishraque as DSCC mayor

The Election Commission (EC) has published a gazette declaring Mohammad Ishraque Hossain, BNP's candidate during the 2020 city corporation election, as the Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed on Sunday confirmed the information.

The Election Commission action followed a verdict of Dhaka’s Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court delivered on March 27, 2025 declaring Ishraque as the winner of Dhaka South City Corporation mayoral election, which was held on February 1, 2020.

Ishraque was present in court during the verdict announcement.

In the ruling, government’s gazette regarding former mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, who ran from Awami League, was annulled.

Ishraque had filed a case on March 3, 2020, seeking annulment of DSCC election results alleging irregularities and corruption in election process.

In the case, then Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, Returning Officer Mohammad Abdul Baten and then DSCC Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, along with six others, were made respondents.

After the verdict, Ishraque’s lawyer, Rofiqul Islam, stated, “We filed the case to cancel the election due to irregularities, corruption and unacceptability. We had requested the court to declare Isharaque Hossain as mayor. Today, the court ruled in our favor and declared Ishraque Hossain as mayor.”