Mohammad Selim Uddin inaugurated a canal-cleaning activity beside Rupayan City at Khidir Khal in Uttara Sector 12, Dhaka, on Sunday morning, August 30, 2026. The event was held under the “Clean Dhaka” programme. Selim Uddin, chairman of the Urban Development Forum and a Jamaat-nominated DNCC mayoral candidate, said waste had been removed from hundreds of locations across 54 wards of Dhaka.

He questioned why garbage could not be removed despite the city corporation having necessary resources and said the initiative was driven by responsibility to solve public problems. He alleged that a leader of the ruling party objected to his group cleaning a canal bank in Uttara. Selim Uddin said the country belongs to everyone and called on political groups to work together on public problems.

Addressing the city administration, he said an unelected urban administration may struggle to understand public suffering. He called for city elections to be held before village elections and demanded swift implementation of the public verdict and referendum. The programme also installed a smart bin for separating three types of waste, which he said would be recycled into pens for distribution to schools on Literacy Day.