Dhaka, Nov. 4 -- The 12-party alliance on Monday submitted a letter to the Election Commission, urging that the provision allowing alliance candidates to contest national elections using the symbol of any partner party be retained.
"We, on behalf of the 12-party alliance, oppose the proposed amendment to the Representation of the People Order (RPO), which requires alliance candidates to use only their own party symbols even when contesting under an alliance. This change is completely unacceptable to us," the letter said.
Under Article 20 of the proposed RPO, when two or more registered political parties form an electoral alliance to field joint candidates, the symbol reserved for the political party to which a candidate belongs may be all...