CEC urges govt to allow indoor politics in more places

FE Team | Published: September 24, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda has called upon the government to allow indoor politics in different places of the country where the local government bodies' elections would begin from January like Rajshahi and Khulna city corporations.
Speaking at a meeting with the electronic media representatives in the city Sunday, the CEC said the work to introduce photo-attached voters' list across the country would continue in full swing from November next, reports BSS.
The CEC said voters' list in 10 per cent areas would be completed by next October adding, "There is no scope of confusion in implementing the road map (to elections) although many were doubtful about the roadmap. But, their confusion could be overcome showing the progress of the work."
Huda highly appreciated the cooperation of the members of the armed forces in the introduction of photo-attached voters' list saying that it would have been very difficult to accomplish the job of voters' listing without the help of the armed forces.
The CEC said discussion with different political parties was being held in a very cordial atmosphere.
The parties were willing to bring back discipline in different issues including financial matters, the CEC added.
Along with the voters' list with photographs, the introduction of national identity (ID) cards would be completed by October next year.
Among others, two election commissioners Muhammad Sohul Hossain and M Sakhawat Hossain, EC Secretary Muhammad Humayun Kabir and Voter List Project Director Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury were present at the meeting.
The media representatives included Bangladesh Television Director General Md Wajed Ali, Bangladesh Betar Director General Mahbubul Alam, ATN Bangla Adviser Saiful Bari, ETV Head of News Shah Alamgir, Executive Director of Boishakhi M Hamid, Bangla Vision's Aminur Rashid, NTV Chief News Editor Khairul Anwar, Channel i News and Current Affairs Editor Saiful Amin and Shakil Manzoor of Radio Today.