EC Formation: BNP to send in 5 names by tomorrow

The BNP has decided to propose five names to the search committee by tomorrow as requested.

The decision came at a standing committee meeting with party chief Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office yesterday, a senior BNP leader told the Daily Star.

Khaleda asked her party colleagues to place to her their preferred names, which she will finalise and send to the committee.

On Saturday, the search panel requested political parties to suggest five names for the appointment of the chief election commissioner and other commissioners by January 31. 

The BNP will hold another meeting today before sending the names, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told journalists yesterday.

When the last search committee was formed in 2012 before the formation of the Election Commission, the BNP did not send any name.