Akhtar Ahmed, Senior Secretary of the Election Commission (EC), talking to reporters at the EC headquarters in the capital on Tuesday. The EC decided to register National Citizen Party (NCP) and Bangladesh Jatiya League as political parties. - bdnews24.com The Election Commission (EC) is set to grant registration to two new political parties -- National Citizen Party (NCP) and Bangladesh Jatiya League -- as they fulfilled required conditions, said EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed on Tuesday, reports UNB.
"We received applications from 143 parties seeking registration. After scrutiny, we shortlisted 22 parties for further field-level inquiries. After reviewing this information (gleaned from field-level), our position is that two parties have preliminarily met the conditions. The two parties are National Citizen Party (NCP) and Bangladesh Jatiya League," he said while briefing reporters at the EC headquarters in the capital on Tuesday.
The EC Secretary said the Commission will now publish a public notification in newspapers inviting objections, if any, against the registration of the two parties.
He, however, said there is an unresolved issue over the election symbol sought by NCP. "The symbol they (NCP) requested is not included in our schedule of symbol related rules. So, we will write to them asking to confirm a suitable alternative (from the schedule). After they confirm, we will publish the notification mentioning their symbol."
Akhtar Ahmed said Bangladesh Jatiya League sought a right symbol (which is within the schedule of symbols).
He said the EC needs further reviews for three other parties at the EC Secretariat and its field-level offices before taking the final decision to award them registration.
The three parties are Bangladesh Aam Janagan Party, Bangladesh Janata Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasod- Shahjahan Siraj).
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