<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Election Commission (EC) is observing the Sylhet and Rajshahi city corporation elections today from the EC auditorium in Dhaka.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>A temporary control room has been set up to monitor the elections in the two cities.</div><div><br></div><div>Election Commissioners Brigadier General Md Ahsan Habib Khan, Md. Alamgir and Rasheda Sultana have been observing the overall situation since 6 am this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>They are monitoring the polls situation through 23 digital display boards, and 368 CCTV cameras in 2,520 voting rooms.</div><div><br></div><div>Voting in 345 polling centers is being monitored through the display boards with autorotation after every 10 seconds.</div><div><br></div><div>No untoward incident has been reported from the polling stations till the filing of this report at 10 am.</div><div><br></div><div>Voting in the elections to Rajshahi and Sylhet city corporations is underway today.</div><div><br></div><div>Voting started at 8 am, and it will continue till 4 pm without any break.</div><div><br></div><div>In Sylhet, a total of 4,86,605 voters will exercise their franchise in the polls while 3,51,982 people including 30,157 new voters are scheduled to exercise their franchise in the Rajshahi city polls.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight mayoral candidates, including Awami League-backed Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, are contesting the polls in Sylhet while four mayoral contenders, including Awami League-backed AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, are contesting in Rajshahi. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>