BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has campaigned for the party-endorsed Dhaka North City Corporation mayor candidate Tabith Mohammed Awal.
“How are you all? I know, not good. I have come today to seek vote. Cast your vote for Tabith. The symbol is bus,” she was heard saying while speaking to locals on Saturday.
This was the first time she came out on the street to solicit votes for one of her party-backed candidates.
“I’m getting huge response from the people,” she told reporters after finishing the campaign.
The elections for the Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong City Corporations are scheduled to take place on Apr 28.
Khaleda has the opportunity to campaign for the BNP-backed aspirants while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Raushon Ershad are bound to stay away due to the electoral code of conduct.
The civic polls are officially non-partisan but political parties can extend support to candidates.
Khaleda Zia, relaxing her anti-government movement, first publicly showed interest in the city polls on Apr 14 when she urged the people to bring about a ‘silent revolution through ballots’.
She had officially introduced the BNP-supported Dhaka North mayor aspirant Tabith Awal and Dhaka South’s Mirza Abbas that day.
Only four days later, she went to campaign for Tabith in the capital’s Gulshan, Banani, Mohakhali and Badda areas.
Khaleda, wearing a pink saree, distributed Tabith’s leaflets to the shopkeepers at different markets in those areas.
Tabith, son of former FBCCI president and the BNP chief’s Adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo, is contesting the election with the symbol ‘bus’.
Tabith joined Khaleda at Banani Road No. 11 during the campaigning on Saturday.
The BNP chief at that time was accompanied by senior party leaders and hundreds of supporters.
She first went to the Pink City at Gulshan-1 from her home and then to the Dhaka City Corporation Market and Navana Tower in the same area in the afternoon.
From there, she went to Badda, Notun Bazar and then Banani. She later campaigned at Mohakhali, Nabisco intersection, Hatir Jheel and ended her campaign at Gulshan’s Niketon around 9pm.
She told a woman at Banani Super Market, “Tabith is from the young generation. We are in favour of change. Please remember to cast your vote.”
“We don’t do negative politics. We do positive politics for youths like you. You are the younger generation, that’s why Tabith Awal, who is one of you, has been chosen. Elect him,”
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