DUCSU polls 11 March

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The elections to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and its hall unions for 25 posts will be held on 11 March.

Chief returning officer professor Mahfuzur Rahman announced the schedule of the election at 10:40am at Nawab Nabab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban on Monday.

The voting will continue from 8:00am to 2:00pm inside the residential halls of the university.

The draft list of voters will be announced today while the final list on 20 February, he said.

The distribution of nomination papers will begin on 19 February and continue until 25 February while the last date of nomination paper submission has been fixed on 26 February.

The withdrawal for candidature is on 2 March while the final candidate list will be published on 3 March. The list of supplementary voter list will be published on 5 March.

The last election to DUCSU was held on 6 July, 1990. In the last 28 years, the Dhaka University students could not cast their votes for selecting their representatives as the election process was closed.

On 17 January, 2018 the High Court ordered Dhaka University authorities to take steps to organise DUCSU elections in six months.