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A total of 287 voters have registered to vote by postal ballot in the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency. Of them, 29 are expatriates and 258 are government officials and employees working inside the country and voters engaged in election duty.
Officials of the Election Commission (EC) gave this information today.
EC officials further said the time for filing appeals against the returning officer’s decision in the scrutiny of nomination papers for this constituency ends today, Sunday.
According to the commission’s schedule, the appeals will be disposed of on 6 October. 7 October is the last day for withdrawal of candidacy, and symbols will be allocated among the candidates on 8 October.
Voting in this constituency will be held continuously from 8am to 4pm on Thursday, 29 October. The list of validly nominated candidates was published on 29 September in a notice signed by District Election Officer and Returning Officer Md Kamrul Islam.
The candidates declared valid are Obaidullah Masud and Mirza Faisal Amin, nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Delwar Hossain of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Md Abdul Alim Nizami of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan, Md Khademul Islam of Islami Andolan Bangladesh and Hussain Muhammad Omar Faruque of Bangladesh Congress.
EC Secretariat Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said there were 507,203 voters in this constituency in the 13th national parliamentary election held on 12 February. With the recent addition of new voters, the total number of voters in the constituency now stands at 515,525.
It may be noted that the seat was declared vacant as Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the member of parliament elected from the Thakurgaon-1 constituency, has now taken office as the country’s president.
