AL submits financial statement

The ruling Awami League (EC) submitted its audited financial statement on Sunday to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2013 calendar year, report agencies.
According to the statement, the AL's income was nearly double of its expenses in the last calendar year.
AL earned Tk 124 million, while spent Tk 67 million, Mrinal Kanti Das, a member of the delegation, told reporters after submitting the audit report to the commission.
Mrinal, also AL deputy office secretary, said the highest income of Tk 65.2 million came from the sale of its nomination forms among 2,608 aspirants before the January-5 general election, but the AL spent only 23.3 million on election purposes.
Meanwhile, an AL press release said the ruling party has no objection if the EC makes the audit statement public.
"We think it (statement) is now the Election Commission's asset. If the EC thinks that it should be published in the interest of the country, its people and democracy it can do that…we've no objection," it said.
EC additional secretary Mokhlesur Rahman told reporters that only four registered political parties, out of 40, are yet to submit their financial statements.
Twenty-six parties submitted their audit statements within the July-31 deadline, while the rest 14, including AL and BNP, had sought further time to place their respective reports.
A four-member AL delegation comprising office secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, deputy office secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, advocate ABM Reazul Kabir Kawsar and Swecchasebok League leader Pankaj Debnath submitted the report to Mokhlesur Rahman.