Four newly-elected city mayors and 157 councillors took oath of office on Tuesday.
Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed administered the oath-taking ceremony to the mayors-elect of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet city corporations at the LGED conference room.
The four newly-elected city mayors won the polls held on August 4. They are AHM Khairuzzaman in Rajshahi, Talukder Abdul Khaleq in Khulna, Badaruddin Ahmed Kamran in Sylhet and Shawkat Hossain Hiron in Barisal.
Kamran, who ran the polls behind bars, secured bail on Sept 4.
The Election Commission gazetted the results on August 12. All the mayors-elect gave up their party posts in line with legal stipulation.
After the mayors took oaths, 157 councillors of the four city corporations were sworn by local government adviser M Anwarul Iqbal.
Of them two detained councillors-elect took oath after they had been freed on parole from Dhaka Central Jail. They are Sylhet City Corporation councilor-elect Jagadish Chandra Das and Khulna City Corporation councilor-elect Golam Maula Shanu.
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