Poll panel resets boundaries of 25 constituencies

The Election Commission of Bangladesh has reset the boundaries of 25 of the 300 parliamentary constituencies to be contested in the upcoming general elections.The decision was made at a meeting chaired by chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Monday, said election commissioner Md Rafiqul Islam.The boundaries of the 300 constituencies have been finalised. The boundaries of 275 constituencies will remain unchanged from those used in the 10th national parliamentary elections, while the remaining 25 have been revised.On March 14, a draft of the reset boundaries showed alterations to 40 constituencies while the remaining 260 remained the same. But 60 of the boundaries outlined in the draft were contested or petitioned.The EC scrutinised the appeals from April 21 to April 25 before accepting 35 of the appeals. As a result, those constituencies will maintain the boundaries from the 10th national parliamentary elections. The remaining 25 will be changed.