The campaign team of the Awami League’s favourite for the Dhaka North mayoral race yesterday called on influential clerics to campaign for him at Friday’s Jummah prayers.
In a possible breach of the electoral code of conduct, Annisul Huq’s campaign team also treated the divines to refreshments at a meeting at Ashkona Haji Camp in the capital’s Uttara area yesterday.
According to the electoral code of conduct, candidates may not offer food or drinks to voters during election campaigns.
Annisul was seeking blessings and ballots from imams and Islamic teachers at a meeting of the Islamic Foundation’s Mosque-based Mass Education Programme.
Shortly after Annisul left the premises, his campaign coordinator, Saiful Hasan, called on the clerics to campaign for his candidate after Friday’s Jummah prayers.
According to the Islamic Foundation, some 500 clerics and teachers were present at the meeting. Later Annisul campaigned at Ershad School in Karail slum and in Gulshan, Banani and the Gulshan 1 and 2 DCC markets.
“Vote for me. I want to be by your side, through thick and thin, during the next five years,” Annisul told businessmen at the Gulshan 1 DCC market.
He also canvassed for votes in Tejgaon, the BG Press area, Uttara’s sector 8 and both Mirpur 1 and Mirpur 2.
