Tasnim Jara files nomination paper

Former NCP leader Tasnim Jara filed her nominations papers to the Election Commission on the final day of submissions on Monday, after completing the monumental task of collecting signatures of 4,693 voters within only two days.

Around 9:17pm on Monday, Tasnim, the former senior joint member secretary at NCP, announced the development in a facebook post, saying: “We Have Made It!”

On Saturday evening, she announced her resignation from all NCP posts after rumours all but confirmed that the youth-led party would join an electoral alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami.

Tasnim broke the news in a facebook post, adding she would contest from the Dhaka-9 seat as an independent candidate.

However, the decision required her to do an almost impossible task: collecting endorsement signatures from at least 1% of voters in her desired constituency. The figure translates as 4,693 voters in Dhaka-9, and, despite being a new face in politics, she managed to collect all of these within the next two days.