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Another 51 aspirants got their candidacy back yesterday, winning appeals against the cancellation of their candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary election by the returning officers during the scrutiny of their nomination papers.

Of them, one is from the Awami League, four each from Jatiya Party and Trinamool BNP, two each from Gonoforum and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, and 26 are independents, Election Commission sources said last night.

With this, a total of 107 candidates got back their candidacy.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal and the other four election commissioners held a total of 99 hearings at the EC office yesterday.

EC officials said they rejected 41 appeals and said decisions regarding six others would be made later, while one applicant failed to show up.

During the first day of hearings on Sunday, a total of 56 aspirants After

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