Emergency should go two months before any local body polls: CEC

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Emergency is to be lifted at least two months before the polls from places where elections will be held, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said Tuesday, reports UNB.
EC had proposed for holding election to the city corporations where it is due from early next year.
Dr Huda said, emergency was required to be lifted from areas where local body election would be held to facilitate the electoral campaign by the candidates.
"What I visualise that I don't expect much that the government would lift emergency from across country," Huda told the reporters when asked to clarify his earlier statement that emergency should continue until the general election.
He said, the election would be scheduled in a way keeping more than a month between the announcement of the schedule and polling day. So, the emergency should be lifted at least two months before holding the election. But emergency should go from across the country before the national election.
"I told that emergency would go wherever the elections will be held. Because elections couldn't be held under the sate of emergency," CEC said refuting media reports that quoted him saying in Tangail on Monday as emergency is needed until the general election.