The newly-elected mayor of Sylhet City Corporation, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, took office with a promise to keep politics out of the corporation.
The mayor took over the corporation’s charges from acting mayor Md Shahjahan at a ceremony held on Wednesday with ward 4 councillor, Rezaul Hasan Koyes Lodi, in the chair.
Speaking at the function, the new mayor said he would ensure that the corporation was not used for political purposes. “The corporation will be used to for the common good of the people. Any attempt to form political circles inside the corporation will be thwarted,” he said.
The immediate past mayor of the corporation, Md Shahjahan, ward 6 councillor, Farhad Chowdhury Shamim, female councillor, Shahana Begum, spoke at the ceremony among others.
