Cumilla City Corporation

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Cumilla City Corporation

কুমিল্লা সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Comilla City Corporation Logo.png
Emblem of the Comilla City Corporation
Type
Type
Term limits
5 years
History
FoundedJuly 10, 2011;12 years ago (2011-07-10)
Preceded byComilla Municipality
New session started
8 April 2024
(Oath taken on 4 April 2024)
Leadership
Dr. Tahseen Bahar Shuchona, AL
since 4 April 2024
Deputy Mayor
Habibur Al Amin Saadi, AL
since 4 August 2022
Md. Shamsul Alam
since 10 September 2023
Structure
Seats1 mayor and 36 councillors
Comilla City Council election 2022.svg
Political groups
Majority (21)
  •   AL (21)

Minority (15)

Elections
First past the post
Last election
 9 March 2024
Next election
June 2027
Meeting place
Comilla City Corporation 13-01-2018.jpeg
Nagar Bhaban, Comilla
Website
cocc.portal.gov.bd

Cumilla City Corporation is a self-governed municipal administration in Bangladesh that administers and oversees development and maintenance works in the city of Comilla. The corporation covers an area of over 53.84 square kilometers in the Comilla District. The body was known as Comilla Municipality previously, until it obtained the City Corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 10 July 2011. [1]

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History

The Comilla municipality was formed in the mid-1890s and the city remained as a municipality for over 125 years though the number of the population has been rising with time. [1] An administrative proposition, issued from the Comilla district administration, was passed on 20 August 2009. [2] The ministry of local government meeting on 4 March 2011 declared to turn at least four of the populated municipalities into city corporations, largely bringing Comilla as a suggestion as one of the contenders. [3] An administrative move was made on 23 June 2011 abolishing the Comilla Municipality as the final step to introduce the administrative body as a city corporation. Later on 10 July 2011, a ministry gazette named the Comilla Municipality as the new Comilla City Corporation. [1]

The city corporation is run by a joint staff of elected public representatives and government officials. Officials both come from departmental recruitment and the administrative cadre service of the country. The Comilla City Corporation has 37 members, containing 27 councilors, 9 woman councilors led by the mayor. [4] Bangladesh Election Commission is constituted to oversee city corporation polls, which sits in the office for a five-year tenure.

The first ever mayoral election of Comilla City Corporation was held on 5 January 2012, has an area of 200 kilometers, elected the municipality's Monirul Haque Sakku as its new mayor, 27 councilors and 9 woman councilors from 27 wards. [5] 2024 Comilla City Corporation by-election

Services

The Comilla City Corporation is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.

List of mayors

No.PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		ElectionTerm of officePolitical
party		Reference
Took officeLeft officeTime in office
1 Monirul Haque Sakku 2012
2017		5 January 201216 May 202210 years, 131 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party [6] [7]
–Dr. Safiqul Islam
(Administrator)		–17 May 20225 July 202249 daysIndependent
2 Arfanul Haque Rifat.jpg Arfanul Haque Rifat (1958–2023) 2022 5 July 202213 December 20231 year, 161 days Bangladesh Awami League [8] [9]
3 Dr. Tahseen Bahar Shuchona 2024 4 April 2024Incumbent24 days Bangladesh Awami League [10] [11]

Elections

Election result 2022

Comilla Mayoral Election 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AL Arfanul Haque Rifat 50,31037.34N/A
Independent Monirul Haque Sakku 49,96737.08N/A
Independent Nizam Uddin Kaiser29,09921.60N/A
IAB Rashedul Islam3,0402.26N/A
Independent Kamrul Ahsan Babul2,3291.73N/A
Majority3430.26
Turnout 1,34,77658.62
Registered electors 2,29,920
AL gain from BNP

Election result 2017

Comilla Mayoral Election 2017
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BNP Monirul Haque Sakku 68,948
AL Anjum Sultana Sima57,863
Majority11,085
Turnout 1,32,690
Registered electors 2,07,566
BNP hold

Election result 2012

Comilla Mayoral Election 2012
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BNP Monirul Haque Sakku 65,777
AL Afzal Khan36,471 [12]
Independent Nurul Rahman Tanim8,514
JP(E) Mohammad Selim7,961
Majority27,306
Turnout 1,25,522
Registered electors 1,69,279
BNP win (new seat)

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References

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