DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) has postponed voting in 149 polling centers across the country as BNP-Jamaat activists’ attack destroyed election equipments.

EC sources said that the voting have been postponed in 44 vote centers in Rangpur, 43 in Gaibandha, 15 in Dinajpur, 10 in Nilphamari, 12 in Bogra, six in Jessore, five in Laxmipur, four in Comilla, three in Thakurgaon, two each in Chittagong and Habiganj, Jamalpur, one each in Feni, Lalmonirhat and Sherpur.

Due to hijacking and destruction of election equipments, EC postponed voting in the centers, the sources added.

To protest the voting, miscreants torched more than hundred polling centers in almost all districts including the capital, Dhaka, Rajshahi, Nilphamari, Narsingdi, Kishoreganj, Feni, Kurigram and Natore, Habiganj, Chittagong, Gaibandha, Comilla, Laxmipur, Jessore, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Jamalpur, Sherpur.
 
BDST: 1507 HRS, JAN 05, 2014
Edited by: SM. Mostafijur Rahman Nasim, Newsroom Editor/ Rubaiat Saky, Senior Newsroom Editor