<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">By-election to the Chattogram-8 constituency – left vacant following the death of Awami League MP Moslem Uddin Ahmed – will be held on April 27, 2023.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Election Commission (EC) Secretary Jahangir Alam announced the schedule of the by-election today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the schedule, the last date for submitting nomination papers is March 27, while the date for scrutinising nomination papers is March 29, and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is April 5.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Voting will start at 8 am on April 27 and will continue till 4 pm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moslem Uddin, a freedom fighter and also president of Chattogram South unit of Awami League, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on February 6. He was 75.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He was elected as an MP on January 13, 2020 – in the vacant seat following the death of former Chattogram-8 MP Moinuddin Khan Badal. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>