Twenty-five aspirants regained their candidature in half day's of appeal hearing on the fourth day on Wednesday.

Earlier, 168 aspirants regained their candidature to contest in the coming national elections to be held on January 7, 2024.

Till 1pm, 59 hearings were held, 25 got back their candededcy. One was cancelled and one was pending.

Thirty-two applications were rejected.

A total of 2,716 aspirants submitted nomination papers to vie in the upcoming 12th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections. Of them, 1,985 nomination papers were accepted and 731 were cancelled by returning officers (ROs) during the scrutiny between December 1 and 4.

Challenging ROs decisions over rejection and acceptance of nomination papers, 561 appeals were lodged with the EC between December 5 and 9.

As per the election schedule, the last date for withdrawing candidature is December 17 while the ROs will distribute election symbols among candidates on December 18.