Cabinet approves fresh amendment to RPO
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Political parties will lose their registration if they fail to hold party council and submit party's amended constitution within the stipulated timeframe of one year fixed by the Election Commission (EC) under a freshly amended law, reports UNB.
The strict provision is incorporated in the Representation of the People Order (RPO) through a fresh amendment to the basic law guiding the conduct of political parties and elections in the country.
The cabinet Monday approved the Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act 2009 in its 39th meeting held at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing journalists after the cabinet meeting that had lasted for hours, Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad said in case of cancellation of a party's registration, the Election Commission would inform the political party in writing.
Under terms of the recently reformed RPO rules, the ruling Bangladesh Awami League and Jatiya Party have so far been successful in holding their councils and submitted their amended party constitutions within the stipulated timeframe given earlier.
The cabinet further approved policies and strategies for the appropriations of the allocations under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for 2009-10 fiscal in a bid to attain the targeted increase in national growth rate up to 8 per cent by 2013 in accordance with the government's election pledge.
Azad said, "As part of the programmes, the government has stressed on the country's infrastructural development, including development of power and energy, communications as well ports."
The press secretary said the government fixed five strategies to implement the PPP initiatives. These are reforming institutional structure, setting up separate unit to implement the PPP initiatives, necessary allocation in the budget, providing revenue incentives to the investors and the launch of publicity about the PPP recipe.
Giving approval to the PPP initiatives, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina underscored the need for increasing investment, both from public and private sectors, for the country's overall development.
She said private sector's participation is essential to improve people's lot.
Prime Minister Hasina said, "The country must be freed from the economic deadlock created during the last seven years' rule of the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance as well as the caretaker government."
The cabinet sent back a proposal on National Sustainable Development Strategy and asked the authorities concerned to further scrutinise it before placing again with the cabinet.
The strict provision is incorporated in the Representation of the People Order (RPO) through a fresh amendment to the basic law guiding the conduct of political parties and elections in the country.
The cabinet Monday approved the Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act 2009 in its 39th meeting held at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing journalists after the cabinet meeting that had lasted for hours, Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad said in case of cancellation of a party's registration, the Election Commission would inform the political party in writing.
Under terms of the recently reformed RPO rules, the ruling Bangladesh Awami League and Jatiya Party have so far been successful in holding their councils and submitted their amended party constitutions within the stipulated timeframe given earlier.
The cabinet further approved policies and strategies for the appropriations of the allocations under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for 2009-10 fiscal in a bid to attain the targeted increase in national growth rate up to 8 per cent by 2013 in accordance with the government's election pledge.
Azad said, "As part of the programmes, the government has stressed on the country's infrastructural development, including development of power and energy, communications as well ports."
The press secretary said the government fixed five strategies to implement the PPP initiatives. These are reforming institutional structure, setting up separate unit to implement the PPP initiatives, necessary allocation in the budget, providing revenue incentives to the investors and the launch of publicity about the PPP recipe.
Giving approval to the PPP initiatives, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina underscored the need for increasing investment, both from public and private sectors, for the country's overall development.
She said private sector's participation is essential to improve people's lot.
Prime Minister Hasina said, "The country must be freed from the economic deadlock created during the last seven years' rule of the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance as well as the caretaker government."
The cabinet sent back a proposal on National Sustainable Development Strategy and asked the authorities concerned to further scrutinise it before placing again with the cabinet.