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Habiganj 1, B’baria 3 by-polls today

By-elections to the Habiganj 1 and the Brahmanbaria 3 constituency are set for today (January 27, 2011) amid fear for violence and uncertainty over troop deployment, a demand that the Election Commission and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have made.

Polling will begin at 8:00am and continue till 4:00pm without any break. In the Brahmanbaria 3 constituency, 3,10,238 people will cast their vote in 126 polling centres and in the Habiganj 1 constituency, 301,447 people will cast their vote in 175 polling centres.

Both the ruling Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have put in their best to fight it out in the by-elections, 10 days after the municipal elections in which BNP-backed mayoral candidates outdid AL-backed candidates.

Read the full story on the daily New Age