Dhaka, Dec. 17 -- Students Against Discrimination Movement on Wednesday demanded that candidates who contested the 2024 general election be barred from contesting the upcoming 13th parliamentary election, arguing that their participation would undermine electoral fairness and reform efforts.

"We asked the Election Commission to take measures so that the candidates who contested in the 'ami-dumi election in 2024 can't participate in the upcoming election. We submitted a legal notice to the EC in this regard," said the student platform president Rifat Rashid.

He was talking to reporters after a meeting between a four-member delegation of the student platform that led the 2024 July Mass Uprising and Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Ud...