By-elections to Bogura-6, Sherpur-3 after Eid: EC Masud

Bangla Press Desk:   The Election Commission will hold by-elections to two parliamentary seats – Bogura-6 and Sherpur-3— soon after Ramadan.

 “We do not want any election in (the month of) Ramadan. We will arrange by-elections to the vacant parliamentary seats soon after the Eid-ul-Fitr,” Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud told UNB on Wednesday.

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman contested the 12 February general election from two parliamentary constituencies – Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17 and he was elected from the two seats. But Tarique Rahman has left Bogura-6 seat for the by-election and took oath as a member of parliament from the Dhaka-17 constituency.

Besides, the EC on 4 February cancelled the election to the Sherpur-3 constituency, following the death of Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Nuruzzaman Badal.

The elections to 299 out of the country’s 300 constituencies (except Sherpur-3) were held on 12 February.

The EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates on 13 February, keeping the election result of Chattogram-2 and 4 constituencies withheld in line with the court’s decisions.

On Tuesday, 296 newly elected MPs took the oath as Tarique Rahman, who was elected from two constituencies, left Bogura-6 for the by-election.

The 296 newly elected MPs include 208 BNP ones, 68 Jamaat MPs, seven independent MPs, and six NCP MPs, two Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis MPs, one MP each of Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP, Gana Odhikar Parishad, Ganasamhati Andolan, Khelafat Majlish, and Islami Andolan Bangladesh.Source: daily Sun

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