Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that no controversial candidates will get the ruling party's nomination in the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections.
Quader came up with the remark at a press briefing at the party president's political office in Dhaka's Dhanmondi on Friday morning, reports UNB.
He said the party will not give nomination to those who are controversial in politics.
The party general secretary said: "Only people with clean records will get nomination.
"Popularity, acceptance and clean reputation will be considered for the mayoral post of DNCC and DSCC," he said.
Elections to DNCC and DSCC are scheduled for January 30.
Awami League's Local Government Nomination Board will meet at the Prime Minister's official residence Ganabhaban at 6pm on Saturday when decision over the nominations of two mayors and 172 councillor candidates will be taken, Quader said.
So far nine aspirants collected nomination forms for mayoral posts of DNCC while seven others for DSCC.
The distribution of nominations will continue from 8am to 5pm every day until December 27. Each aspirant has to pay Tk25,000 for the forms.
Aspirants will have to submit their forms by 6pm Friday (December 27).
Meanwhile, talking about the new committee of the ruling Awami League, Quader said it has 15 new faces.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Quader were reelected as president and general secretary respectively of the ruling party on December 21.
