AL starts selling nominations for reserved seats

The Awami League on Tuesday started selling nomination papers among aspirants for the reserved seats for women in the 11th parliament.

Confirming the matter, AL Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap said they started selling nomination papers from the party president’s political office in Dhanmondi around 10am on Tuesday.

To meet requirements for proportional representation in parliament, the ruling AL will get 43 reserved seats for women MPs, Jatiya Party will have four seats, and BNP one, while other parties and the coalition of independent MPs will get the remaining two seats.

The Election Commission will announce election schedules on February 17 for 50 reserved seats of the 11th parliament.

A gazette notification about the MPs elected to the 300 seats of the 11th parliament was published on January 1.

The Election Commission has a legal obligation to arrange elections for the 50 women’s reserved seats within 90 days after the gazette of the general election results is published.

Directly-elected MPs are the voters for the reserved seat elections.