By-Poll to Vacant Reserved Seat for Women on Oct 27
Desk Report
Published: 07 Oct 2021, 03:04 pm
Election Commission (EC) Building || Photo: Collected
Voting for the vacant seat in the reserved seat for women in
the 11th parliament will be held on October 27.
Election Commission (EC) secretary Humayun Kabir Khandaker
declared the schedule on Thursday.
The deadline for submitting nomination papers, according to
the schedule, is October 17. The nomination document must be scrutinized by
October 18, with the deadline for withdrawal of candidature set for October 23.
On October 27, voting will begin at 9:00 am and end at 5:00 pm.
The seat was declared vacant on September 13 after the death
of Prof Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury (70), a lawmaker from the reserved seat and a
member of the Jatiya Party's presidium.