Announcement of election schedule today
Friday, 20 June 2008
Amid a state of emergency continuing in the country, the Election Commission (EC) will announce schedules for holding overdue elections to some city corporations and municipalities today (Friday), reports UNB.
The reconstituted EC headed by ATM Shamsul Huda for the first time will hold the local-government elections in four city corporations and nine municipalities as a test to see the impact of the newly made election laws on ground.
An EC official said the election schedules would be announced at the EC secretariat at 5:00pm as the nomination papers for the candidates would have reached the destinations by then.
The full hierarchy of the Election Commission - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda and election commissioners M Sohul Hussain and M Sakhawat Hussain - will be present at the ground-breaking ceremony like election-schedule announcement in the wake of a lull on the country's politico-electoral front.
Meanwhile, the caretaker government has decided to relax relevant rules of the emergency power rules (EPR) for the election areas immediately after announcement of the election schedule to facilitate electioneering.
The city corporations going to the polls are Rajshahi, Borishal, Sylhet and Khulna. The nine municipalities are Dupchachia in Bogra, Naohata in Rajshahi, Sreepur in Gazipur, Fulbaria in Mymensingh, Golapgonj in Sylhet, Sitakundo in Chittagong, and Chuadanga, Manikgonj and Shoriatpur district headquarters.
Sources said the announcement of schedule for holding Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) election could be delayed by 3-4 months as the voter-listing is not completed. "Schedule for the DCC election may be announced in August or September," he said.
All the elections in the country are going to be held on the basis of a new voters list with photo is being prepared across the country aiming to screen out fake voters and false voting -- a syndrome that assumed a crisis proportion in the past.
Incidentally, the government proceeded with the non-party local body elections despite opposition from the major political parties, who pleaded that the stalled parliament elections must be held first.
The reconstituted EC headed by ATM Shamsul Huda for the first time will hold the local-government elections in four city corporations and nine municipalities as a test to see the impact of the newly made election laws on ground.
An EC official said the election schedules would be announced at the EC secretariat at 5:00pm as the nomination papers for the candidates would have reached the destinations by then.
The full hierarchy of the Election Commission - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda and election commissioners M Sohul Hussain and M Sakhawat Hussain - will be present at the ground-breaking ceremony like election-schedule announcement in the wake of a lull on the country's politico-electoral front.
Meanwhile, the caretaker government has decided to relax relevant rules of the emergency power rules (EPR) for the election areas immediately after announcement of the election schedule to facilitate electioneering.
The city corporations going to the polls are Rajshahi, Borishal, Sylhet and Khulna. The nine municipalities are Dupchachia in Bogra, Naohata in Rajshahi, Sreepur in Gazipur, Fulbaria in Mymensingh, Golapgonj in Sylhet, Sitakundo in Chittagong, and Chuadanga, Manikgonj and Shoriatpur district headquarters.
Sources said the announcement of schedule for holding Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) election could be delayed by 3-4 months as the voter-listing is not completed. "Schedule for the DCC election may be announced in August or September," he said.
All the elections in the country are going to be held on the basis of a new voters list with photo is being prepared across the country aiming to screen out fake voters and false voting -- a syndrome that assumed a crisis proportion in the past.
Incidentally, the government proceeded with the non-party local body elections despite opposition from the major political parties, who pleaded that the stalled parliament elections must be held first.