BNP shares four parliamentary seats with Jamiat

BNP has shared four parliamentary seats with its alliance partner Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh.

The decision was disclosed at a press conference held at the BNP chairperson’s office in Gulshan around 12:15PM on Tuesday. The party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement in the presence of senior leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh.

He said the seats were given as part of seat-sharing arrangements with alliance partners.

“Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh will contest the upcoming election with BNP on the basis of an understanding. BNP has left Nilphamari-1, Narayanganj-4, Brahmanbaria-2 and Sylhet-5 constituencies for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, where the party will contest the election with the ‘Date Palm Tree’ symbol.”

Mirza Fakhrul also said BNP will not field any candidate in the four agreed constituencies, and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh will not contest in other seats across the country as part of the understanding.

On behalf of BNP, he congratulated and welcomed the four candidates of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh.

The BNP leader said, “I appeal to our leaders and workers, and to voters in those areas, to vote for the ‘Date Palm Tree’ symbol and thereby strengthen the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’.”

Fakhrul warned that if any BNP leader or activist contests the election as an independent candidate in seats already allocated to alliance partners, organisational action will be taken against them.