Selina Hayat IvyAwami League nominated candidateSelina Hayat Ivy, the Awami League nominated candidate for the mayoral race in Narayanganj City Corporation polls, was the first mayor of the city corporation when it was formed.
In 2011, she was sworn in as the mayor after winning the polls held on October 30, defeating Shamim Osman by more than 100,000 votes. She is the first ever female city mayor in Bangladesh.
Ivy was born to a political family of Narayanganj on June 5, 1966. Her father Late Ali Ahmed Chunka was the first chairman of Narayanganj Municipality after independence.
After passing her SSC and HSC examinations in 1982 and 1984, Ivy went to Russia on scholarship and got admitted to Odessa Piragov Medical Institute in 1985. She acquired Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1992.
After coming back home, she did her internship at Mitford Hospital, Dhaka and served as an honorary physician in the 200-seat Hospital in Narayanganj during 1994-1995. Then she went to New Zealand in 1995 to study Medical Laboratory Science.
Ivy came back to Bangladesh in 2002 and participated in Narayanganj municipal election in 2003 and became the first female chairman and mayor of Narayanganj Municipality.
She is now the vice-president of Narayanganj City Awami League. She is also the convener of AL-leaning doctors forum Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad’s (Swachip) Narayanganj branch. In personal life, Ivy is mother of two sons.
Shakhawat Hossain KhanBNP nominated candidateShakhawat Hossain Khan, BNP’s candidate for the mayoral race in the Narayanganj City Corporation polls, is mostly known as a lawyer.
He currently holds no post in the district or city unit of the party. He was nominated by the party as a mayoral candidate. Shakhawat came to spotlight as a counsel to victim families of the infamous Narayanganj seven-murder incident in 2014.
In his political career, Shakhawat became secretary of Narayanganj city unit’s rebel committee in 2009 but it was abolished. After the seven-murder, he gained prominence in the party by providing free legal assistance to party men who were arrested in various cases.
During that period, he was the president of Narayanganj Bar Council for two consecutive terms for 2013-2014. He also discharged duties at several posts of the bar council since 2002.
Previously he was a junior to the BNP district president and lawyer Taimur Alam Khandaker.
Shakhawat was born in Munshiganj district in 1969. He served as the secretary of the district unit Jubo Dal in 1984. In the 1990s, he moved to Narayanganj and got admitted to Government Tolaram College to study law.
Shakhawat became a member of city BNP in 1998, however in 2008, he failed to get nomination from BNP for the Narayanganj 5 constituency.
He recently said he was the fourth choice of the BNP high-ups. Senior local leaders had rejected the party’s proposal of competing as the candidate .
In 2011, she was sworn in as the mayor after winning the polls held on October 30, defeating Shamim Osman by more than 100,000 votes. She is the first ever female city mayor in Bangladesh.
Ivy was born to a political family of Narayanganj on June 5, 1966. Her father Late Ali Ahmed Chunka was the first chairman of Narayanganj Municipality after independence.
After passing her SSC and HSC examinations in 1982 and 1984, Ivy went to Russia on scholarship and got admitted to Odessa Piragov Medical Institute in 1985. She acquired Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1992.
After coming back home, she did her internship at Mitford Hospital, Dhaka and served as an honorary physician in the 200-seat Hospital in Narayanganj during 1994-1995. Then she went to New Zealand in 1995 to study Medical Laboratory Science.
Ivy came back to Bangladesh in 2002 and participated in Narayanganj municipal election in 2003 and became the first female chairman and mayor of Narayanganj Municipality.
She is now the vice-president of Narayanganj City Awami League. She is also the convener of AL-leaning doctors forum Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad’s (Swachip) Narayanganj branch. In personal life, Ivy is mother of two sons.
Shakhawat Hossain KhanBNP nominated candidateShakhawat Hossain Khan, BNP’s candidate for the mayoral race in the Narayanganj City Corporation polls, is mostly known as a lawyer.
He currently holds no post in the district or city unit of the party. He was nominated by the party as a mayoral candidate. Shakhawat came to spotlight as a counsel to victim families of the infamous Narayanganj seven-murder incident in 2014.
In his political career, Shakhawat became secretary of Narayanganj city unit’s rebel committee in 2009 but it was abolished. After the seven-murder, he gained prominence in the party by providing free legal assistance to party men who were arrested in various cases.
During that period, he was the president of Narayanganj Bar Council for two consecutive terms for 2013-2014. He also discharged duties at several posts of the bar council since 2002.
Previously he was a junior to the BNP district president and lawyer Taimur Alam Khandaker.
Shakhawat was born in Munshiganj district in 1969. He served as the secretary of the district unit Jubo Dal in 1984. In the 1990s, he moved to Narayanganj and got admitted to Government Tolaram College to study law.
Shakhawat became a member of city BNP in 1998, however in 2008, he failed to get nomination from BNP for the Narayanganj 5 constituency.
He recently said he was the fourth choice of the BNP high-ups. Senior local leaders had rejected the party’s proposal of competing as the candidate .