Chief Advisor observes voting across the country from control room

Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus observed voting across the country.

On Thursday (February 12), he observed voting across the country from the control room located at the police headquarters.

Home Affairs Advisor Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Inspector General of Bangladesh Police (IGP) Baharul Alam were present at the time.

The 13th National Parliament Election and Referendum are underway across the country.

Although voting began at 7:30 am today, voters have been arriving at the centers since early morning. Voters will vote in 299 parliamentary constituencies across the country until 4:30 pm.

Voting is being held at a total of 42,779 polling stations in the country. There will be 247,482 polling stations in these centers. A total of 50 political parties are participating in this election.

A total of 2,028 candidates are contesting in this election. Of these, 1,755 are political party candidates, 273 are independent candidates. 83 are female candidates (63 are party candidates and 20 are independent).

This time, 127,711,893 voters from 299 constituencies in the country will exercise their voting rights in the national elections and referendum. Among them, 64,825,361 are male voters, 62,885,200 are female voters and 1,232 are transgender.

The EC has canceled the election in Sherpur-3 constituency due to the death of the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate. For this reason, elections are being held simultaneously in 299 parliamentary constituencies except this constituency.