The High Court today stayed the Election Commission’s decisions that allowed BNP candidate Tamiz Uddin to contest the December 30 election for Dhaka-20.
The bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam passed the order following a separate writ petition filed by ruling Awami League candidate Benazir Ahmed for Dhaka-20.
In the petition he challenged the EC’s decision to allow Tamiz Uddin to contest the December 30 election claiming that Tamiz is holding the office of Dhamrai upazila chairman which is a profitable post, Deputy Attorney General Motaher Hossain Sazu told The Daily Star.
He said the HC bench also rejected a writ petition filed by a candidate for Cox’s Bazar-2, Hamidur Rahman, seeking its directive on the EC to allocate sheaf of paddy as his election symbol.