The 12th parliamentary election will be held on January 7 (Sunday), 2024 as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal announced the polls schedule on Wednesday evening.
In a televised address to the nation at 7:00pm, the CEC unveiled the election schedule.
The deadline for submission of nomination papers is November 30, while December 1-4 was fixed for scrutinizing nomination papers and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is December 17.
The announcement of the polls schedule came amid the ongoing 48-hour blockade called by BNP and like-minded parties to press home their one-point demand for the resignation of the current government.
But Bangladesh Awami League is hell-bent on the arrangement of the national election under the present government.
The Election Commission is also determined to hold the next general election within the stipulated time as per its constitutional obligation.
The EC has a constitutional obligation to complete the next general election by January 29, 2024, the day the tenure of the current government (Parliament) will end.
A total of 11,96,91,633 voters under 42,103 polling stations throughout the country will have right to cast their votes in the 12th general election.
The last 11th parliamentary election was held on December 30, 2018.
