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DHAKA: Campaigning for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election will end at 8:00 am on October 27. Candidates must refrain from all forms of election campaigning until voting concludes.
Officials of the Election Commission’s (EC) Election Management Branch confirmed the information on Monday (October 26). The commission has already instructed the returning officer to inform the candidates accordingly.
According to the directive, all election campaigning must stop 48 hours before the commencement of voting in parliamentary elections. Voting for the by-election is scheduled to begin at 8:00 am on October 29. Accordingly, campaigning will end at 8:00 am on October 27.
Five candidates are contesting the by-election: Mirza Faisal Amin of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), contesting with the Sheaf of Paddy symbol; Md. Delawar Hossain of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, with the Scales symbol; Md. Abdul Alim Nizami of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan, with the Banyan Tree symbol; Hafiz Dr. Md. Khademul Islam of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, with the Hand Fan symbol; and Husain Muhammad Omar Faruk of Bangladesh Congress, with the Coconut symbol.
The by-election was necessitated after BNP-elected Member of Parliament Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir resigned from the seat following his election as president. The Parliament Secretariat subsequently declared the seat vacant, after which the Election Commission announced the by-election schedule.
