Voting rights to be restored at any cost, says CEC

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said the voting rights of people will be restored at any cost, report agencies.
"People have lost interest in voting due to the lack of opportunities, and we aim to address their regrets," he said while speaking at a programme to inaugurate the voter list updating programme-2025 at the Savar Upazila Parishad auditorium on Monday.
The CEC said the voting rights will be realised when common people will be able to vote for their preferred candidate without fear.

During the event, election commissioners urged data collectors to remain vigilant, as the number of female voters in the latest update programme was alarmingly low.
They have also warned against voters who vote in two places simultaneously.
The door-to-door data collection campaign will continue until February 3 and the collection of biometric data of the eligible voters will be taken from February 5 to April 11.
During the field-level data collection campaign, enumerators will collect the data of eligible voters who were born on and before January 1, 2008.
Besides, the enumerators will collect applications from the existing voters who intended to change voting addresses and the data of deceased voters for dropping their names from the voter list.
According to the Electoral Training Institute, more than 66,000 people have already received training over the voter listing updating programme. The trained people include 55,016 enumerators and 11,801 supervisors.
The EC will publish the draft updated electoral rolls incorporating the names of new voters on January 2, 2026.