<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Voting in the Chattogram-10 by-polls is underway today.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The turnout of voters was low in the morning, and no untoward incident has been reported in the election as of filing this report at 9:30 am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Election Commission (EC) is observing the Chattogram-10 by-polls through CCTV cameras from the control room in Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Election Commission has set up 1,563 CCTV cameras at 156 centres to monitor the elections, said EC sources.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Farhad Ahmad Khan, joint secretary at the election management section of the EC, said voting is underway using electronic voting machines (EVMs).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Election monitoring is being done by installing two CCTV cameras in each polling station.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Voting in the Chattogram-10 constituency started at 8 am, and will continue until 4 pm without any break.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the Chattogram-10 constituency, six candidates are contesting. The seat comprising Double Mooring, Pahartali and Halishahar fell vacant following the death of MP Dr Afsarul Amin on June 2 this year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awami League-backed candidate Md Mohiuddin Bachhu is contesting with the symbol ‘boat’, Jatiya Party’s Md Samsul Alam with ‘plough’, Trinaomool BNP’s Dipak Kumar Palit with ‘golden fibre’, Bangladesh Sanskritik Muktijot’s Rashid Miah with stick, and independent candidates Md Arman Ali with balloon and Manjurul Islam Bhuiyan with rocket.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At each polling station, three members of the police, two members of the Ansar will remain deployed during the election. Moreover, 10 ansar members and a village police will also perform duty.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At vulnerable stations, one more police member and two village police personnel will remain deployed compared to the non-vulnerable ones.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eight mobile teams and four mobile striking teams from the police, four teams from Rapid Action Battalion, and four platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will remain on-duty in the election.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two judicial magistrates will remain deployed to conduct mobile court along with 12 other executive magistrates.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A total of 4,88,633 voters are expected to cast their votes in the by-polls. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>