Tarique vacates Bogura-6, keeps Dhaka-17: EC

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has vacated the Bogura-6 seat for by-election as he is set to take oath as a member of parliament from the Dhaka-17 constituency on Tuesday.

“We’ve received a letter that BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman vacates Bogura-6 constituency,” Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said on Monday.

He said now the process continues to publish a gazette declaring the parliamentary constituency vacant.

Tarique was elected from two parliamentary seats – Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17— in the parliamentary election held on 12 February. 

On 13 February, the EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates.

The election results of two other constituencies – Chattogram-2 and Chattogram-4 - were withheld as per the court orders.

Besides, the election to Sherpur-3 was earlier cancelled following the death of a contesting candidate.

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The newly elected MPs are set to take oath as members of the 13th parliament and also members of the Constitution Reform Council on Tuesday morning.

In the election, the BNP secured 209 parliamentary seats, while the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami won 68.