Instead a panel mayor, a councilor has been appointed as acting mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation in the absence of the elected mayor.
On Monday the RCC authorities received a letter from the relevant ministry to appoint Nizam Ul Azeem, councilor of ward 21, as the acting mayor.
Saroj Kumar Nath, deputy secretary of the local government, rural development and cooperatives ministry, signed the letter on Sunday at the behest of the president.
Speaking to Prothom Alo, Ashraful Haque, chief engineer of RCC, confirmed that they had received the letter.
The government suspended elected RCC mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul on 7 May.
RCC panel mayor-1 Anwarul Amin Azam is now in jail while panel mayor-2 Nuruzzaman is a fugitive after being accused in a case. Panel mayor-3, Nurunnahar Begum, was elected as a BNP-backed candidate.
She is supposed to be the acting mayor of RCC, but police were deployed in the mayor's office on 12 May before she could take charge as mayor.
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