Tarique quits Bogura-6, keeps Dhaka-17: EC

Bangla Press Desk:   BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has left Bogura-6 seat for by-election as he is set to take oath as a member of parliament from Dhaka-17 constituency on Tuesday.

“We’ve received a letter that BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman quits Bogura-6 constituency,” Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said on Monday.

He said now the process continues to publish a gazette declaring the parliamentary constituency vacant.

Tarique was elected from two parliamentary seats – Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17— in the parliamentary election held on last Thursday (12 Feb).

On last Friday (13 Feb), the EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates.

The election results of two other constituencies – Chattogram-2 and 4 - were withheld as per the courtThe newly elected MPs are set to take oath as members of the 13th parliament and also members of the Constitution Reform Council on Tuesday morning.

In the election, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured 209 parliamentary seats, while Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami won 68. orders.

Besides, the election to Sherpur-3 was earlier cancelled following the death of a contesting candidate.

Source: daily Sun

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