<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Newly elected mayors of three city corporations — Abul Khair Abdullah of Barishal, Talukder Abdul Khaleque of Khulna and Jayeda Khatun of Gazipur — took oath this morning.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at a ceremony held in Shapla Hall of her office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, 157 newly elected councillors of general wards and female councillors of the reserved seats of the three city corporations also took oath at the same venue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">AL-backed mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah wins Barishal City Corporation election</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam administered the councillors’ oaths.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim conducted the oath-taking ceremony.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee was present on the occasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">AL-backed mayor candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque wins Khulna City polls</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On June 12, Awami League mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah (Khokon Serniabat) won the Barishal City Corporation election with 87,807 votes. His nearest rival Islami Andolon Bangladesh candidate Mufti Syed Mohammad Faizul Karim bagged 33,828 votes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awami League mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque won the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election with 1,54,825 votes. His nearest rival Islami Andolan Bangladesh’s Md Abdul Awal got 60,064 votes in the polls held on June 12.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">AL not embarrassed by results of Gazipur city election: Agri Minister Razzaque</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">On May 25, independent candidate Jayeda Khatun won the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls with 238,934 votes, defeating her nearest rival Awami League-nominated candidate Azmat Ullah Khan who bagged 222,737 votes. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>