Staff Reporter:
The Election Commission will hold by-elections to two parliamentary seats – Bogura-6 and Sherpur-3— soon after Ramadan.
“We don’t want any election in Ramandan. We’ll arrange by-elections to the vacant parliamentary seats soon after the Eid-ul Fitr,” Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud told yesterday.
BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman contested the February-12 general election from two parliamentary con-stituencies – Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17 and he was elected from the two seats. But Tarique Rahman has left Bogura-6 seat for by-election and took oath as a member of parliament from Dhaka-17 constituency.
Besides, the EC on February 04 last cancelled the election to 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 February 12.
The EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates on February 12, 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 oath as Tarique Rahman who was elected from two constituen-cies left Bogura-6 for by-election.
The 296 newly 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, Ganaodhikar Pari-shad, Ganasamhati Andolan, Khelafat Majlish and Islami Andolan Bangladesh.
