Dhaka, April 24 -- BNP leader Ishraque Hossain on Thursday met Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin to know the update over the publication of the gazette notification declaring him as the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

He met the CEC two days after the Election Commission sent a letter to the Law Ministry seeking opinion over the issuance of mayoral gazette notification declaring Ishraque Hossain as DSCC mayor, UNB reports.

"The file reached the EC (following the election tribunal's verdict) and now the gazette notification will be issued. It (file) has already been sent to the Law Ministry for opinion. Since I was the petitioner in the case, I came to know an update over it," he told reporters after his meeting w...