Tea Workers Union Election: Around 4,000 Voters in Barlekha's 18 Gardens as Administration Begins Preparations

The administration has begun preparations in Barlekha ahead of the upcoming elections to the Panchayat, Valley Executive Council and Central Council of the Tea Workers Union. Election coordinator Md. Khorshed Alam, Deputy Director of the Divisional Labour Office (Dhaka), held a preparation meeting on Tuesday afternoon with the upazila administration, the police station administration, managers of the tea gardens and chairmen of the concerned unions.

The elections to the Panchayat, Valley and Central Executive Councils will be held on 28 November in the upazila's 18 tea gardens. The total number of voters in the 18 gardens is around 4,000.

The preparation meeting was chaired by Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mahbub Alam Mahbub.

At the meeting, election coordinator Md. Khorshed Alam said the elections to various posts of the tea workers' Panchayat, Valley and Central Executive Councils are going to be held after several years. The Election Commission has taken all kinds of initiatives to make the election festive, spontaneous and trouble-free, he said.

Assistant Commissioner (Land) Naima Nadia, the police station's OC (Investigation) Obaydullah Haque, Press Club General Secretary Abdur Rab, Uttar Shahbazpur Union Parishad Chairman Rafiq Uddin and Dakshinbhag Dakshin Union Parishad Chairman Aminul Haque also spoke at the meeting.

Also speaking were Ohidabad Tea Garden manager Ali Askar, Rahmaniya Tea Garden manager Rafiqul Alam, Sabajpur Tea Garden manager Nahid Ferdous Chowdhury, Bahadurpur Tea Garden manager SM Ikramul Kabir, Pallathol Tea Garden manager Nazrul Islam, Keramatnagar Tea Garden manager Mahmudul Hasan Masum and Md. Saiduzzaman, among others.