National polls: 11 candidates declared valid in Dhaka-17
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Mohammad Ali Arafat and GM Quader to fight over the seat
A total of 11 candidates among the 13 who submitted their nominations for the Dhaka-17 constituency were declared valid to participate in the upcoming 12th national parliamentary election.
However, the election commission declared the two others nomination forms invalid after scrutinizing them.
Awami League candidate Mohammad Ali Arafat and Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader and Salma Islam’s nominations were declared valid for this seat.
Returning Officer Sabirul Islam announced the verification of the nomination form of the candidates of the Dhaka-17 constituency at the Dhaka Divisional Commissioner's office at Segunbagicha in the capital on Monday afternoon.
The valid candidates are - Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader, Mohammad Ali Arafat from Awami League, Abul Kalam Azad from BNF, Ainul Haque of Bikalpa Dhara, independent candidate Arafat Ashwad Islam, Zaker Party's Kazi Rashidul Hasan, Salma Islam from Jatiya Party, Qazi Shafiul Bashar from Trinamool BNP, Nazmun Nahar from Bangladesh Sangskritik Muktijot, Ghulam Farooq Majnu from NPP, Shah Alam from BSP.
The nomination forms of independent candidate Masood Khan and Bangladesh Congress's Akhlaku Rahman were declared invalid.
According to the schedule announced by the Election Commission, the deadline for submission of nomination forms was November 30.
A total of 2,741 nomination papers were submitted against 300 constituencies across the country.
A total of 30 out of 44 registered political parties submitted their nomination forms to contest the election.
Of the aspirants, the most, 298 candidates, are from the Awami League, 289 from JaPa, 230 from Trinamool BNP, 90 from JaSoD, and 82 from the BNM.
The scrutinization of nomination papers started on December 1 and continued till Monday.
The deadline for filing and disposing of appeals against the returning officer's decision is December 5-15, and the last date for withdrawing candidacy is December 17.
The returning officers will allocate symbols on December 18.
The 12th parliamentary election will be held on January 7, as per the schedule announced by Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on November 15.