Presidential-nomination

Nomination papers have been submitted for Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in the presidential election. Party leaders submitted the nomination papers to Chief Election Commissioner and Election Officer for the presidential election AMM Nasir Uddin at around 2:30pm on Thursday, August 13. BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan is the proposer of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s nomination, while BNP Standing Committee Member and Dhaka 3 cons...

After the mass uprising, the BNP stood by the office of the president, not by Mohammad Shahabuddin, in order to avoid a constitutional crisis. Since the mass uprising or revolution led to the departure of almost all those holding constitutional offices in the country, a constitutional vacuum emerged everywhere. There had to be at least one way out of that situation. In that context, it was important to maintain the office of the president for constitutional continuity and constitutional ne...