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The nomination papers of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr
Shafiqur Rahman was submitted to the returning officer concerned on Monday so
that he can contest the national election from Dhaka-15 constituency.
Besides, BNP nominated Bobby Hajjaj and Shafiqul Islam Khan
submitted their respective nomination papers to contest the polls from Dhaka-13
and 15 constituencies respectively.
On behalf of the Jamaat chief, a three-member team handed
over the nomination paper to Md Yunus Ali, the returning officer for Dhaka-13
and 15 constituency and also Dhaka Regional Election Officer, at the latter’s
office in the Electoral Training Institute in the capital’s Agargaon area.
Jamaat assistant secretaries general Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair
and Abdul Halim and central executive committee member Mobarak Hossain were the
delegation members.
In the two constituencies, a total of 29 nomination papers
were collected, but only three papers were submitted till Sunday.
According to the EC’s Central Coordination Committee formed
for the February-12 election, a total of 3,144 nomination papers were collected
from the 69 returning officers -- two divisional commissioners (Dhaka and
Chattogram), three regional election officers (Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna)
and 64 district deputy commissioners-- to run the polls from the country’s 300
constituencies till Sunday after the election schedule announced on December 11
last.
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on December 11
announced the schedule to arrange the 13th parliament election and the
referendum on the July National Charter (Constitutional Reform) Implementation
Order simultaneously on February 12 next.
According to the election schedule, the deadline for the
submission of nomination paper is December 29, while the scrutiny of nomination
paper is on December 30-January 4 and the last date for the withdrawal of
candidature is January 20.
The election campaign will start on January 22 and continue
till 48 hours before the balloting period (7:30am on February 10).