The nomination papers of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman was submitted to the returning officer concerned on Monday to contest the national election from Dhaka-15 constituency.

Besides, BNP nominated Bobby Hajjaj and Shafiqul Islam Khan submitted their respective nomination papers to contest the polls from Dhaka-13 and 15 constituencies respectively.  

On behalf of the Jamaat chief, a three-member team handed over the nomination paper to Md Yunus Ali, the returning officer for Dhaka-13 and 15 constituency  and also Dhaka Regional Election Officer, at the latter’s office in the Electoral Training Institute in the capital’s Agargaon area.

Jamaat assistant secretaries general Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair and Abdul Halim and central executive committee member Mobarak Hossain were the delegation members.

In the two constituencies, a total of 29 nomination papers were collected, but only three papers were submitted till Sunday.

According to the EC’s Central Coordination Committee formed for the February-12 election, a total of 3,144 nomination papers were collected from the 69 returning officers -- two divisional commissioners (Dhaka and Chattogram), three regional election officers (Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna) and 64 district deputy commissioners-- to run the polls from the country’s 300 constituencies till Sunday after the election schedule announced on December 11 last.

Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on December 11 announced the schedule to arrange the 13th parliament election and the referendum on the July National Charter (Constitutional Reform) Implementation Order simultaneously on February 12 next.

According to the election schedule, the deadline for the submission of nomination paper is December 29, while the scrutiny of nomination paper is on December 30-January 4 and the last date for the withdrawal of candidature is January 20.

The election campaign will start on January 22 and continue till 48 hours before the balloting period (7:30am on February 10).