The Election Commission (EC) has found small discrepancies in the constitutions of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Jatiya Party (JP) in a review of the constitutions of all political parties it has taken up recently, reports BSS.
The EC has initiated the review to make sure that all political parties have fully complied with the RPO rules and the commission guidelines to this effect. The party registration committee has so far reviewed the constitutions of these two parties and found the shortcomings.
It will review the constitutions of all parties and demand corrections where shortcomings would be detected.
A scrutiny committee, headed by EC Joint Secretary N I Khan, is carrying out the review. Khan told the news agency Saturday that political parties had acted in haste before the last parliamentary elections in restructuring their constitutions and the EC also had not have enough time to verify them. So it had started the review.
The sources said the EC would ask both LDP and JP to bring corrections to relevant sections where the shortcomings have been detected. It would send letters to them very soon asking to rewrite these sections in the light of the RPO rules.
Khan said review of the LDP constitution showed it has nowhere mentioned that party nominations to elections would be given on the basis of recommendations of ward, union, upazila and district committees.
Political party registration act requires the parties clearly spell out the nomination process through holding caucus through the grassroots levels.
He said the JP constitution also did not have a clear provision of 33 per cent women nominees in the parliamentary election. The EC would ask the party to remove ambiguity in this respect.
EC reviews party constitutions to detect shortcomings
FE Team | Published: November 01, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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