Competent candidates would be elected thru' democratic practice: CEC

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GAZIPUR, June 21 (UNB): Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said Thursday their aim is to hold an election where competent candidates would be elected through the real practice of democracy.
"The situation of the country will also be better if fake voters can be screened out," Huda told media people while inspecting the progress on preparing voter list with photograph and national identity card under a model project in Sreepur municipal area.
He went round five voter-registration centres and control room during the surprise visit to see for himself the model work that will be replicated across the country in preparation for holding the stalled general election.
The work on the project, which began on June 10, is likely to be completed by June 30. Around 50 per cent works of the project, being implemented by the army, have already been done in 11 days.
Army technical team members apprised the CEC of the real picture of making voter list under the experimental scheme.
Around 22,477 male and female voters out of total 44,687 voters of Sreepur municipality were enrolled in the voter list till Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, bdnews24.com says: The Election Commission (EC) is making a new law that will describe what qualification a person will require to be an election commissioner, an official said Thursday.
Election Commissioner Sahul Hossain said the move was necessary since currently there was no specific yardstick for the appointment of a commissioner to the top polls office.
Hossain said Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda was supervising the work on the draft of the new law.
"We think it's important. There should be something in place to keep a certain standard so that competent people can play the role of election commissioners," Hossain told reporters in his office.
"Even there's no guideline in the constitution," he said.
The task of enacting such a guideline is easier for a non-political government, Hossain said, adding that this is the best time to make the law.