The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday announced candidates for 237 constituencies for the upcoming 13th parliamentary election, likely to be held in February next year.
The party has published a list specifying who will receive the BNP nomination in each constituency. There are a total of 300 seats in the National Parliament.
Among these, candidates have not yet been announced for some seats, and a few seats have been reserved for alliance partners.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir unveiled the potential candidates at a press conference at the BNP chairperson’s political office in Gulshan, Dhaka in the afternoon.
The party’s chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will contest from Feni-1, Bogura-7, and Dinajpur-3 constituencies, while acting chairman Tarique Rahman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will run from Bogura-6 and Thakurgaon-1 respectively.
Following is the full list of 237 candidates (in Bengali);