Election campaign materials including posters and banners will have to be removed from public places by November 14, an official of the Election Commission said today.

The commission will issue a circular soon in this regard, EC joint secretary ASM Asaduzzaman told The Daily Star today.

Earlier, on Friday, the EC asked all political parties and lawmaker hopefuls to remove their posters, banners and all kinds of campaign materials within next seven days.

WHEN WILL THE 11TH JS POLLS BE HELD?

The 11th parliamentary election will be held on December 23, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda announced on November 8.

In a televised address to the nation yesterday, CEC Huda unveiled the election schedule and urged all political parties to join the election.

The announcement of the election schedule came despite the request of Jatiya Oikyafront, an alliance of the Gono Forum, BNP and several other opposition parties, not to announce the schedule before resolving the crisis over the election.

According to the schedule, the last date for filing nomination papers for candidacy is November 19. The returning officers will scrutinise the nomination papers on November 22 while the last date for withdrawing candidacy is November 29.