Prioritising the “temporary” water logging problem, Chittagong City Corporation election mayoral candidate M Manjur Alam yesterday unveiled his 54-point manifesto to the city people.
Manjur, the BNP-led 20-party alliance backed Chattagram Unnayon Andalon’s candidate and also the recently resigned mayor, claimed to have fulfilled most of the promises he made during the last mayoral election and added that Chittagong city does not face long water logging problems anymore. He said he would continue the ongoing projects to mitigate the current “few-hour-long” water logging in the city.
“CCC has already has a Tk297 crore allotment for canal digging project with the assistance of the government and Jica. The fund collected from ADB, Kuwait Fund and Jica to implement Master Drainage Plan for removing water logging will be continued in future,” he said.
In his manifesto, Manjur also addressed issues regarding food security, waste management, nonstop water supply, civic facilities, transportation, communication development, educational improvements, different plans for underprivileged groups and health sector.
The programme was held at Reema Community Centre in Askardighir Par area around 3pm where LDP President Colonel (Retd) Oli Ahmad, BNP’s Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman, BNP Chairperson’s Advisor Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin and BNP Chittagong city unit President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury were present.
When asked, Manjur told journalists that he could not fulfill some of his previous promises as those were out of his hands, but he would resume those if re-elected.
Manjur claimed that he carried out his role as mayor perfectly during his tenure and said: “I believe in reality. We cannot change everything overnight, we have to do things one step at a time.”
