Online Desk: The election campaigns for the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) polls are set to end on Saturday midnight.

As the KCC election is scheduled to be held on Monday (June 12), no candidates will be allowed to continue campaign after midnight. Meanwhile, the campaigning activities for the election began on May 26 with the allocation of election symbols.

This year, five candidates, who vying for mayoral posts, are—AL backed Talukder Abdul Khaleque, Jatiya Party’s Shafiqul Islam Modhu, Bangladesh Islami Andolon’s Moulana Abdul Awal, Zaker Party’s S M Sabbir Hossain, and independent candidate Shafiqur Rahman Mushfiq.

Total 136 candidates are vying for councillors in 29 general wards, and 30 for reserved seats. Two councillors for wards 13 and 24 have been elected unopposed. A total of 5, 35,528 people to cast their votes in the 31 wards of Khulna city and there are 1,732 polling booths under 289 polling stations.