<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Voting in the by-polls to the six parliamentary seats — left vacant after BNP MPs resigned — began this morning.</span></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The six constituencies are: Thakurgaon-3, Bogura-4 and 6, Chapainawabganj-2, 3 and Brahmanbaria-2.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Voting began at 8:30 am and will continue till 4:30 pm, said SM Asaduzzaman, Joint Secretary of the Election Commission.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Electronic voting machines (EVMs) are being used in the by-elections. However, no CCTV cameras have been installed in the polling centers, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forty aspirants are vying in the 6 constituencies for MP post.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A total of 22,55,217 people are expected to exercise their franchise in 867 polling centers.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Voting underway for by-polls to 6 JS seats left vacant after BNP MPs’ resignation&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, the government on Tuesday announced a public holiday on Wednesday in the election areas on the occasion of the by-elections.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier on December 10, 2022 at a public rally, parliamentarians of BNP announced their resignation from the JS. The next day, on December 11, Chapainawabganj-2 lawmaker Md Aminul Islam, Bogura-4 lawmaker Md. Mosharraf Hossain, Bogura-6 lawmaker Golam Mohammad Siraj, and Thakurgaon-3 lawmaker Zahidur Rahman resigned from the parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two other BNP lawmakers — Advocate Abdus Sattar of Brahmanbaria-2 constituency and Harun-or-Rashid of Chapainawabganj-3 — resigned from the parliament later. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd24/kh</div>