Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, adviser to the ministries of local government, rural development and cooperatives, and youth and sports, said on Sunday that he was set to contest the 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections for a constituency in Dhaka.
The adviser on the day went to the office of the Dhanmondi thana election officer on Green Road in the capital, which falls under Dhaka-10 constituency, to submit his application to change his voter location and to become a voter of the area.
The Dhaka-10 constituency comprises Dhanmondi, New Market, Kalabagan, and Hazaribagh police station areas.
Asif Mahmud comes from Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla.聽Muradnagar upazila falls under the jurisdiction of the Cumilla-3 constituency.
The adviser submitted his application only a day before the last date of changing voters鈥� location ahead of the next general election. The last date of submitting such applications is today.
Responding to a journalist鈥檚 question about the specific time of his resignation from the government鈥檚 advisory council, Asif Mahmud said that he would inform the media about the matter after discussing this with his high-ups in the interim government.
After the fall of the Awami League regime amid a student-led uprising on August 5, 2024, Asif Mahmud, a key organiser of the July uprising, took oath as an adviser of the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government on August 8, 2024.
鈥業t is almost certain that I am going to contest the election from Dhaka. That鈥檚 why I am changing my voter location to Dhaka,鈥� Asif Mahmud said.
The adviser said that he could not cast his vote in 2018 and 2024 general elections.
Asked whether he would join any political party, Asif said that his current plan was to run as an independent candidate.
