# Voting will take place at 2,289 polling rooms in 392 centres in the 330-square kilometre city corporation. It will start at 8am and conclude at 4pm.
# Seven people are vying for the Mayor’s office.
Another 456 candidates are in the fray for councillor posts in 57 general wards, and 128 women are contesting for 19 reserved seats.
# Of the 10,26,938 voters in the city corporations, 499,161 are women and 527,777 are men.
# Led by Returning Officer Matiar Rahman, a total 7,259 election officials will be on duty.
# Around 1,100 national and international observers will watch the polls. Apart from them, the Election Commission will have its own observers.
# Saturday is a holiday in the area. All ready-made garment units in the area will be shut.
Candidates and symbols
Azmat Ullah Khan, who had been Tongi municipal Mayor since 1995, is running with ‘inkpot-pen’. His main rival, MA Mannan, who won the 1991 parliamentary elections from this constituency, has ‘television’ symbol.
# Sammilita Nagarik Committee candidate former Chhatra League leader Jahangir Alam is contesting with ‘pineapple’.
# Muktujuddha Prajanma Dal’s Mejbah Uddin Sarkar Rubel has ‘duck’ symbol.
# Md Amanullah has ‘padlock’ symbol.
# Rina Sultana is contesting with ‘butterfly’.
# Nazim Uddin Ahmed’s symbol is ‘horse’.
# Over 11,000 members of police, APBn, RAB, Coast Guard, Ansar and BGB have been deployed to maintain order in the city polls as mobile or striking force.
# Twenty-two law keepers will be deployed at each general polling centre while 24 law officials will be present at each of the risky centres.
# Each ward will have a mobile force and there will be a striking force for three wards each.
# Fifty-seven mobile and 19 striking forces of police and Armed Police Battalion will be deployed in the city.
# Gazipur’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Shahnawaz Dilruba Khan has said 50 executive magistrates and 10 judicial magistrates will patrol the election areas.
# On Jan 7, the government approved the formation of Gazipur City Corporation with Tongi and Gazipur municipality.
On Jan 16, Gazipur was formally announced as the 11th city corporation of Bangladesh.
# The Election Commission announced schedule for the polls on May 22. Nomination paper submission ended on Jun 6. It scrutinised the nominations on Jun 9-10 and extended withdrawal of candidacy until Jun 17.
