The Election Commission has asked aspiring candidates for the 12th national parliamentary election to remove posters, banners, paintings, billboards, arches, pandals, lightings, and other campaign materials at their own cost.

The Election Commission will have more time to scrutinise nomination forms and dispose of appeals this time than in the previous national elections.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam yesterday said no one would be able to obstruct the upcoming national election.

Aiming to increase voter turnout and “resist” those who’ll try to “destroy the festivity of polls,” the Awami League-backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League will form a 20-member team for each polling centre across the country.

Says Shahriar Alam

The Awami League has sold a total of 2,286 nomination forms in two days for the 12th parliamentary elections

The nomination papers will be sold from the JP chairman's Banani office from 11:00pm

A huge crowd of nomination aspirants and supporters had arrived at the office in droves on the second day as well

The Election Commission will have more time to scrutinise nomination forms and dispose of appeals this time than in the previous few national elections.

Meets CEC and 4 ECs

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami challenging a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission as a political party

Raushan's meeting with the president is taking place at a time when a fresh rift opened in JP again centring on participating in the January 7 national polls.

The Election Commission has suspended two presiding officers for two months following an investigation into the allegations of irregularities at multiple polling centres during the Brahmanbaria-2 by-polls.

The ruling Awami League has sold 1,074 nomination forms for the 12th National Assembly Election after party chief Sheikh Hasina kicked off the sales today

His personal assistant collected the forms on his behalf for Magura 1, Magura 2, and Dhaka 10 constituencies

Raushan Ershad decides to join polls under AL-led alliance; general secy says they need 'a couple of days'

Four political parties today informed the Election Commission that they want to take part in the upcoming national election allying with the ruling Awami League

The Jatiya Party will decide within a couple of days whether the party will join the next national election or not, said its Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu

More than 300 nomination papers have been sold in the first two hours since Awami League kicked off the process in the morning..The 12th National election is scheduled for January 7..Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the process at 10:30 am,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government can only be changed through a vote and denounced the efforts to foil the polls through violence and arson