Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy will join the campaign for Azmat Ullah Khan, the ruling Awami League-supported mayoral candidate in the Gazipur City Corporation polls.
Ivy was a rebel candidate of the AL in NCC polls and defeated the party-backed candidate by nearly 100,000 votes.
Ivy told the Dhaka Tribune that she would join Azmat’s campaign “not as a mayor but because Azmatullah is the president of the Municipal Association of Bangladesh and I am its vice-president.”
As per the City Corporation (Code of Conduct) Rules 2010, the speaker, deputy speaker, chief whip and whips, ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers are not allowed to join polls campaigns.
City mayors outside Dhaka are entitled to get the status of a state minister.
Asked about this, Ivy said she had not received any such protocol.
“I am going there just for the president of our organisation,” she said.