Voter registration starts in Cox's Bazar
Thursday, 27 December 2007
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 26 (bdnews24.com): Voter registration and preparation of national identity cards took off in Cox's Bazar Wednesday.
Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila election officer Shahadat Hossain said photographs were being taken in about 13 centres of Cox's Bazar municipality and the work will end on January 1.
District commissioner Sajjadul Hassan and army officer Lt Col Anisur Rahman launched the programme at Cox's Bazar Government Girls' High School in the morning.
Hossain said data on about 21,000 voters were collected until December 25. A total of 17 engineering construction battalions of the army will assist in the job in Cox's Bazar municipality and Sadar Upazila areas.
The voter registration centres are Cox's Bazar Government High School, Cox's Bazar Government Girls' High School, Primary Training Institute, D Ward Government Primary School, Cox's Bazar Technical School and College, Tekpara Amena Khatun High School, Kosturaghat Government Primary School, Tekpara Government Primary School, Umidia Madrasah, Burmese Government Primary School, Peshkarpara Government Primary School and Shaheed Titumir Institute.
Authorities were asked to be on alert to prevent Rohingya refugees migrating from Myanmar from becoming voters.
Earlier, a meeting of the coordination committee on problems about the Rohingyas was held at the conference room of the district commissioner.
It formed committees in upazilas and unions to prevent the Rohingyas from enlisting as voters.
The deputy commissioner (DC) said the Rohingyas would not be allowed to be voters.
"The Rohingyas will not be allowed to be voters at any cost. We should also be alert against the Rohingyas who had earlier enrolled in voters' lists so that they cannot be voters this time," Lt Col Anisur Rahman said.
Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila election officer Shahadat Hossain said photographs were being taken in about 13 centres of Cox's Bazar municipality and the work will end on January 1.
District commissioner Sajjadul Hassan and army officer Lt Col Anisur Rahman launched the programme at Cox's Bazar Government Girls' High School in the morning.
Hossain said data on about 21,000 voters were collected until December 25. A total of 17 engineering construction battalions of the army will assist in the job in Cox's Bazar municipality and Sadar Upazila areas.
The voter registration centres are Cox's Bazar Government High School, Cox's Bazar Government Girls' High School, Primary Training Institute, D Ward Government Primary School, Cox's Bazar Technical School and College, Tekpara Amena Khatun High School, Kosturaghat Government Primary School, Tekpara Government Primary School, Umidia Madrasah, Burmese Government Primary School, Peshkarpara Government Primary School and Shaheed Titumir Institute.
Authorities were asked to be on alert to prevent Rohingya refugees migrating from Myanmar from becoming voters.
Earlier, a meeting of the coordination committee on problems about the Rohingyas was held at the conference room of the district commissioner.
It formed committees in upazilas and unions to prevent the Rohingyas from enlisting as voters.
The deputy commissioner (DC) said the Rohingyas would not be allowed to be voters.
"The Rohingyas will not be allowed to be voters at any cost. We should also be alert against the Rohingyas who had earlier enrolled in voters' lists so that they cannot be voters this time," Lt Col Anisur Rahman said.