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Summary One-to-one contest after Maulana Fazl withdraws from race.
The session of National Assembly started with the recitation of the Holy Quran, after which the Speaker Fehmida Mirza opened the session.Maulana Fazlur Rehman requested the Speaker to postpone the election for some time. However, his request was declined by the Speaker.After this, Maulana Fazl announced that his party would remain neutral in the election and not vote for any candidate.Later, the Speaker told the members to go the polling booths made for the purpose and the process of voting started.The House was divided in two parts. The voters of Sradar Mehtab were assigned the left side of the lobby while voters of Raja Ashraf were asked to gather on the right side.Raja Ashraf went to the Opposition members and shook hands with them. He also embraced Moulana Fazlur Rehaman.
