CEC seeks full law enforcers' support to ensure fair polls

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has called for full cooperation from all relevant organisations and law-enforcement agencies to conduct the forthcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and referendum in a fair, festive and peaceful atmosphere, report agencies.

The CEC made the call while speaking at a pre-preparatory meeting in the capital's Nirbachan on Thursday.

Top representatives from three armed forces -- Army, Navy and Air Force - a well as officials from Home Affairs Ministry, Police, RAB, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Coast Guard, Ansar and VDP, the Armed Forces Division, DGFI, NSI, NTMC, SB and CID attended the meeting.

After the meeting, EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said, "All the agencies are making every possible effort to ensure a peaceful, acceptable and widely acceptable election, with the capacity to respond swiftly to any situation."

He reiterated that the EC's clear message is to maintain a festive, peaceful and fair election, stressing that every agency must perform its duties with responsibility and without compromise.

"No deviation from the code of conduct will be tolerated," he warned.

To maintain the law and order and prevent misinformation, the EC will form a monitoring cell and a cyber security cell with representatives from various forces and organisations, he said.