EC search body: Fakhrul in doubt, Moudud optimistic

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today expressed his doubt whether the Election Commission search committee would be able to work ignoring petty political interest.

“It is almost clear what will be done by the search committee and thus we are not sighting any ray of hope,” Fakhrul came up with the observation after placing wreaths at the grave of the party founder Ziaur Rahman at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.

The countrymen had expected that an impartial Election Commission would be formed to get rid of the prevailing political crisis but the hope has gone in vain, he said.

If the search committee becomes able to form a nonpartisan Election Commission then people will understand that the search body is working ignoring the petty political interest, he added.

In a separate programme, BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed urged the search committee to propose names of election commissioners who have no link with any political parties.

“I am optimistic that the search committee would propose names for the election commissioners who are skilled, honest and apolitical,” he said.

Requesting the search body not to name any BNP-minded people for the EC, Moudud said his party requested the president to form the search committee with the people who are retired and were not in any profitable post of the government.

“But it has done just the opposite that we have wanted during the talks with President Abdul Hamid,” Moudud, also a former law minister, said.

He was addressing a function organised by Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka this noon.