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

The Election Commission will hold by-elections for two parliamentary seats - Bogura-6 and Sherpur-3- soon after Ramadan.

"We don't want any election in (the month of) Ramadan. We'll 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 February 12 general election from two parliamentary constituencies - Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17, and he was elected from the two seats. But Tarique Rahman has left the Bogura-6 seat for the by-election and took oath as a member of parliament from the Dhaka-17 constituency.

Besides, the EC on February 04 last 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 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 constituencies, left Bogura-6 for the by-election.

The 296 newly elected MPs include 208 BNP MPs, 68 Jamaat MPs, seven independent MPs, six NCP MPs, two Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis MPs, one MP each of Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP, Gono Odhikar Parishad, Ganoasamhati Andolan, Khelafat Majlish and Islami Andolan Bangladesh.

Source: UNB