The voting in the by-polls to Jashore-6 (Keshabpur) and Bogura-1 (Sonatola-Sariakhandi) constituencies continues since today morning amid corona virus pandemic.<\/p>\n
The polling in those two constituencies begins at 9am and it will continue till 5pm.<\/p>\n
The Election Commission (EC) completed all-out preparations for holding the by-polls.<\/p>\n
As part of the preparation, movement of all type of vehicles including motor-bike has been suspended in the area of those two constituencies.<\/p>\n
The general holiday has also been declared there on the vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not necessary to submit fresh nomination for the by-polls in these two constituencies \u2026the electoral process resumed after suspending the polls caused by corona virus pandemic,\u201d said EC secretary M Alamgir.<\/p>\n
On January 18, the Bogura-1 constituency fell vacant following ruling party lawmaker Abdul Manan died. The registered voters of the constituency are 3 lakh 30 thousand and 893.<\/p>\n
The contesting candidates of by-polls to Bogura-1 constituency are Sahadara Mannan (Awami Legue), wife of late ruling party lawmaker Abdul Mannan, AKM Ahsanul Taiyab Zakir (BNP), Moksedul Alam (Jatiya Party), M Roni (Progatishil Ganotantrik Dal or PDP), Nazrul Islam (Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon) and Independent candidate Yasir Rahmatullah Intaj.<\/p>\n
On January 21, the Jashore-6 constituency has been vacant after the death of Awami League leader and former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeque.<\/p>\n
The registered voters of the constituency are 2 lakh 3 thousand and 18.<\/p>\n
The contenders of the by-polls to this constituency are Awami League candidate Shahin Chaklader, BNP candidate Abul Hossen Azad and Jatiya Party candidate Habibur Rahman Habib.<\/p>\n
The by-polls of the two constituencies were scheduled for March 29, but it was postponed due to the transmission of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n
However, the EC is holding the by-polls today for constitutional obligation.<\/p>\n
The constitutional dateline for holding election to Bogura-1 constituency is July 15 and July 18 for Jashore-6 constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The voting in the by-polls to Jashore-6 (Keshabpur) and Bogura-1 (Sonatola-Sariakhandi) constituencies continues since today morning amid corona virus pandemic. The polling in those two constituencies begins at 9am and it will continue till 5pm. The Election Commission (EC) completed all-out preparations for holding the by-polls. As part of the preparation, movement of all type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}