EC announces schedule of 233 elections
By-polls to mayoral post in Cumilla City Corporation (CuCC) and elections to Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) will be held on 9 March.
Polls and by-polls to 231 municipalities, unions, upazilas, zila parishads will also be held on the same day.
Election Commission Secretary Jahangir Alam announced the polls schedule at a press conference at Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital’s Agargaon on Wednesday morning.
As per the schedule, the deadline for submission of nomination papers is February 13 while the date for scrutinising those is February 15 and the last date of withdrawal of candidature is February 22.
The electoral symbols will be allotted on February 23.
MCC will be on in polls for the second time as last election was held on May 5, 2019.
CuCC mayoral post fell vacant as its mayor and Cumilla City unit of Awami League general secretary Arfanul Haque Rifat died of pneumonia while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore on December 13.
Nine municipalities where elections will be held on March 9 are Bakshiganj of Jamalpur district, Patuakhali, Katakhali of Rajshahi, Satkhira, Trishal of Mymensingh, Munshiganj, Taherpur of Sunamganj, Shibganj of Chapainawabganj and Amtali of Barguna.
