Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has selected Mohammad Selim Uddin, ameer of its Dhaka North City unit, as its candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Vice President (VP) Shadik Kayem for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), in the next city corporation elections.
Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar disclosed the names while talking to reporters after a Seerat-un-Nabi (PBUH) conference organized by the National Doctors Forum at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh auditorium in the capital.
He said Jamaat is an election-oriented political party and has taken organizational preparations for the upcoming local government elections.
"We have reached the final stage of completing the nomination process for candidates in all Union Parishads, Upazila Parishads, municipalities and city corporations at the grassroots level. In many places, we have already internally announced our candidates," Porwar said.
He said Jamaat will participate in the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations and has already selected its candidates through its organisational process.
"We will officially announce the candidates at the appropriate time. It has already appeared in the media that we have announced Selim Uddin as our candidate in Dhaka North and Shadik Kayem in Dhaka South," he said.
Meanwhile, Shadik Kayem, whose actual name is Md Abu Shadik Kayem, played an important role as a coordinator during the 2024 mass uprising.
He was later elected Ducsu VP in the September 2025 election.
Earlier, the National Citizen Party (NCP) announced its mayoral candidates for the two Dhaka city corporations.
It picked its Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary as its candidate for the DSCC and Spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain as its candidate for the DNCC.
Meanwhile, the ruling BNP has yet to announce its candidates for the city polls.
