Five Chattogram City unit BNP leaders have collected their party’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming elections to Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) as a mayor candidate with ‘Sheaf of Paddy’.
They bought the nomination forms from the party’s Nayapaltan central office, said BNP’s Assistant Office Secretary Taiful Islam Tipu.
The five aspirants are Chattogram City unit BNP President Dr Shahdat Hossain, General Secretary Abu Hashem Bakkar, Vice-President Syed Azamuddin, Ex-Joint Secretary Ershad Ullah and
Ex-Councillor Niaz Muhammad Khan.
Tipu said, “The forms will have to be submitted with Tk 30,000 as security money by February 23 properly.”
Meanwhile, four BNP leaders bought the party nomination forms to contest in the Jashore-6 by-polls, while nine to run the Bogura-1 Constituency by-election.
Local BNP leader M Nuruzzaman Tapan, Abdus Samad Biswas, Mostafizur Rahman and Amelendu Das Opu collected party nomination forms to contest the Jashore-6 by-polls with ‘Sheaf of Paddy, the electoral symbol of the party.
Those who bought BNP’s nomination forms to contest Bogura-1 by election are Mosharraf Hossain Chowdhury, Shahidunnabi Salam, Quazi Erfanur Rahman Rentu, Dr Shah M Shahjahn Ali, Belal Hossain, AKM Ahsanul Toyab Jakir, ASM Rafiqul Islam Biswas, Dr Shmasul Alam and Masudur Rahman.
Chattogram City Corporation election and Bogura-1 by-election and Jashore -6 polls will be held on March 29.
As per the schedule announced by the Election Commission, the deadline for the submission of nomination papers is February 27 while the scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on March 1 and the last date for the withdrawal of candidacy is March 8.
The election symbol will be allotted on March 9.
“Party’s nomination board will take interview of the two by-polls nomination seekers on February 24 at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office and finalise the party’s mayor candidate for the CCC polls,” said Taiful Islam Tipu.
