BCB election on Oct 31

Sports Desk: Election schedule of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has been announced. The much-talked-about election will be held on October 31.

BCB chief election commissioner Omar Faruk came up with the announcement of the BCB election schedule on Thursday.

According to the election schedule, a draft voter list will be published on October 16 while the final one will be published on the following day after conducting a hearing on the draft list.

Nomination papers will be distributed on Oct 20 and the candidates have to submit their nomination papers on Oct 24.

The scrutiny on the nomination papers will be held on Oct 25.

Later, appeal and hearing on the candidate list will be held on Oct 28 while the aspirants can withdraw their candidature on October 29.

After completing all proceedings, the final candidate list will be published on Oct 29.

Final official results of the election will be published on November 1.

Earlier on October 5, BCB formed a five-member election commission in its last Board of Directors meeting and sent a letter to National Sports Council (NSC) three days later for approval. The NSC gave the approval on Tuesday (Oct 10).

risingbd/Dhaka/Oct 12, 2017/Porag/Amirul