All branches of the four state-owned banks will remain open tomorrow to facilitate transactions of the aspirant candidates of the reserved women seats of 10th parliament.

The banks, including Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rupali, has been asked to keep open their branches to facilitate candidates getting treasury invoices, bank drafts, pay orders or postal orders, said a circular Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued yesterday.

The Election Commission (EC) has set March 29 for election to the 50 reserved seats and the by-polls to Tangail-8 constituency.

The deadline for candidates to submit their nomination papers to the returning officer at the EC secretariat was on March 4 while the date of scrutinising the papers was yesterday and the withdrawal of nominations is on March 12.