{"id":52500,"date":"2026-08-06T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52500"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:22:20","slug":"bangladeshs-presidential-election-to-be-held-on-aug-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bangladeshs-presidential-election-to-be-held-on-aug-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s presidential election to be held on Aug. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>DHAKA, Aug. 6 :<\/strong> Bangladesh&#8217;s presidential election will be held on Aug. 20, the country&#8217;s Election Commission (EC) announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Akhtar Ahmed, senior EC secretary, made the announcement at a press conference in Dhaka, saying nomination papers must be submitted on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>He said the EC has already received the electoral roll comprising the 350 members of parliament from the Parliament Secretariat for the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu on July 24 tendered his resignation in a letter submitted to Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, citing serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament Secretariat subsequently confirmed to the media that Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad had begun discharging the functions of the president in accordance with the Constitution following his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Constitution of Bangladesh, members of parliament are voters in the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Aug. 6 : Bangladesh&#8217;s presidential election will be held on Aug. 20, the country&#8217;s Election Commission (EC) announced on Thursday. Akhtar Ahmed, senior EC secretary, made the announcement at a press conference in Dhaka, saying nomination papers must be submitted on Aug. 13. He said the EC has already received the electoral roll comprising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52503,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions\/52503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}