Leaders of Narigrontho Probortona, a woman rights organisation, yesterday demanded the government place a bill in the first session of the 9th parliament for holding a direct election to the reserved seats for women in the house.
New Age: Thirty-one lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, the main opposition in Jatiya Sangsad, took oath as members of parliament on Thursday.
UNB: The Jatiya Sangsad speaker, Jamiruddin Sircar, is scheduled to administer oath to the lawmakers-elect of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, the main opposition in the parliament, this afternoon.
The intra-party feud in Pabna BNP over candidacy in upazila poll took a new turn yesterday as joint secretary of its district committee and secretary of the Sadar upazila body Anisul Haque Babu was expelled from the party.
Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton has continued campaigns in favour of Awami League leaders who are contesting in the upazila elections.
Huge turnout due to fear-free environ: CEC
Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda, alongwith two other commissioners, yesterday called on President Prof Dr Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban and presented a report of the Commission on December 29 general election.
BNP-led four-party candidate Mahbubuddin Khokan was unofficially won in the polls to Noakhali-1 constituency yesterday. According to unofficial counts, Khokan of BNP polled 104,653 votes, while his nearest rival and Awami League candidate HM Ibrahim got 80,529 votes.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda today hoped that the January 22 upazila elections will be held peacefully like the December 29 parliamentary polls.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamshul Huda said army would be deployed from January 20 for five days to maintain law and order situation during the upcoming upazila elections and also to curb post-poll violence.
More than two lakh voters of Noakhali-1 constituency go to polls today to elect their representative in the ninth parliament. People in the constituency expect a neck-and-neck battle even though the constituency is considered a BNP stronghold. Awami League (AL) last won the constituency way back in 1973.
