The Election Commission (EC) will not grant any further extension for the submission of nomination papers for the upcoming national election, EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said on Monday.
“The time for submission of nomination papers will not be extended anymore,” he told reporters at Nirbachan Bhaban in the afternoon.
The deadline for the submission of nomination papers expired at 5pm on Monday.
Replying to a question, the EC Secretary the number of aspirants who submitted nomination papers to contest from the country’s 300 constituencies will be informed later.
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Most of the aspirants submitted their nomination papers today as only 166 nomination papers were filed till Sunday to contest the 13th parliamentary election scheduled to be held on February 12, 2026.
According to the EC’s Central Coordination Committee, a total of 3,144 nomination papers were collected 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).
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This time the Commission appointed 69 returning officers –two divisional commissioners (Dhaka and Chattogram), three regional election officers (Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna) and 64 district deputy commissioners.
The collection and submission of nomination papers started on December 12, a day after the announcement of the election schedule.