, Jan. 6 -- A total of 164 aspirants filed appeals with the Election Commission in the first two days, challenging returning officers' decisions on the acceptance and rejection of nomination papers for the February 12 national election.

Among them, 122 petitions were submitted on Tuesday and the remaining 22 ones on Monday, according to the statistics of the EC's Central Booth installed for receiving the appeal petitions.

The Election Commission will receive the appeal petitions till January 09 next and then the Commission, headed by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin, will hear and dispose of the petitions from January 10 to 18.

During the five-day nomination paper scrutiny from December 30 to January 04, the 69 returning off...