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XDhaka: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia’s BNP on Monday announced its candidates for the national election planned for February.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the names of party candidates in 237 of the 300 constituencies.

He said that 80-year-old party chairperson Zia would contest from three constituencies and her son, self-exiled acting BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, would vie in the polls from one seat.

“Here we want to particularly point out that we have not given our party nomination in (some) constituencies so that those who took part in the political movement (against the ousted Awami League government) jointly with us could contest from there,” he said.

Alamgir called it a “primary list” as he annou

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