Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has left Bogura-6 seat for by-election as he is set to take oath as a member of parliament from Dhaka-17 constituency on Tuesday.

"We've received a letter that BNP chairman Tarique Rahman quits Bogura-6 constituency," Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed told UNB on Monday.

He said now the process continues to publish a gazette declaring the parliamentary constituency vacant.

Tarique Rahman was elected from two parliamentary seats - Bogura-6 and Dhaka-17- in the parliamentary elections held on Thursday last.

On Friday last, the EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates.

The election results of two other constituencies - Chattogram-2 and 4-- were withheld as per the ...