<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Election Commissioner Rashida Sultana on Wednesday said that Gazipur City Corporation voting will be held in a free and fair environment and voters can cast their vote peacefully on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The commissioner said this while exchanging views with journalists after a meeting with magistrates on maintaining law and order in the Gazipur City Corporation election at Gazipur Circuit House.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that this election is not a separate challenge, Rashida Sultana said that all elections are considered equally important.</div><div><br></div><div>“The CCTV cameras have been installed in the polling centres. The election will be monitored from the morning,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Also on Wednesday, Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said that a total of 13,000 law enforcers will be deployed to maintain law and order during the day’s election.</div><div><br></div><div>The EC will use electronic voting machines (EVMs) at all polling stations.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight candidates will contest for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 11,79,476 voters are expected to exercise their franchise and of them, 5,92,762 are men and 5,86,696 are women, and the number of transgender people is 18. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>