The BNP Ultimately has revised its list of initially nominated candidates for the 13th parliamentary elections and has also left several seats for its partners in the simultaneous movement. Changes have been made in three constituencies so far.

The nomination letters were issued on Saturday (December 27) afternoon, signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, according to party sources.

As part of an understanding, the BNP has ceded the Dhaka-12 constituency to Saiful Haque, general secretary of the Revolutionary Workers Party. The party had earlier nominated former Jubo Dal president Saiful Alam Nirob for the seat.

In Chattogram-4 (Sitakunda and part of Akbar Shah–Pahartali), the BNP has finalised Mohammad Aslam Chowdhury as its candidate, replacing previously announced nominee Kazi Salauddin. After receiving the final nomination, Aslam Chowdhury met local leaders and activists at his Sitakunda residence on Saturday morning. “The trust the party has placed in me is the result of your sacrifices,” he told supporters.

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, who was initially nominated for Chattogram-10, has now been fielded in Chattogram-11. The party had kept Chattogram-11 vacant during the preliminary nomination announcement on November 3.

Meanwhile, the BNP has nominated Said Al Noman, president of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Jute Workers’ Party, for Chattogram-10. He is the son of late BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman.

In Jashore, the BNP has changed its initially nominated candidates in four of the district’s six constituencies.

In Jashore-1 (Sharsha), the party had first nominated former central office secretary Mofiqul Hasan Tripti. The nomination has now gone to Sharsha Upazila BNP general secretary Nuruzzaman Liton.

In Jashore-4 (Bagherpara, Abhaynagar upazila and Basundia union), central leader Engineer TS Ayub was initially nominated. He has been replaced by Matiar Rahman Faraji, president of the Abhaynagar upazila BNP.

In Jashore-5 (Manirampur), Upazila BNP president Advocate Shahid Iqbal Hossain was initially given the party nomination. Later, the seat was allocated to Mufti Rashid Bin Wakkas, senior joint secretary general of one faction of Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam, a BNP ally.

In Jashore-6 (Keshabpur), central BNP member and former Chhatra Dal president Kazi Rawnaqul Islam Shrabon was replaced by another central member and Keshabpur Upazila BNP president Abul Hossain Azad.

In Pirojpur-1 (Nazirpur, Pirojpur Sadar and Zianagar), the final BNP nomination has gone to Professor Alamgir Hossain, a member of the party’s central executive committee and former convener of the district BNP.