CG can hold polls in 90 days easily
Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said yesterday that a caretaker government will not have any problem in arranging parliamentary elections within 90 days since a voters list with photograph is already in place.
The CEC made the comment while talking to journalists at the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat.
Talking on the Awami League's proposal to limit the tenure of the CG to 90 days, the election office chief said, “The Election Commission will comply with anything that comes in the form of law. There is no scope for us to violate the law.”
The correct voters list prepared by the EC would allow holding any election within a short notice, he said, adding that the list will just be needed to be updated before the polls.
On ending of the commission's tenure in February next year, the CEC said, “Everything remains prepared for the next commission. The Election Commission will reconstituted at least one year before 10th parliamentary elections. We don't know how that commission will be. But we believe it will be able to hold any election within a short notice,” Shamsul Huda said.
The present EC was formed during Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker government. The CG held the ninth parliamentary elections about two years after its taking office instead of 90 days due to a flawed voters list.
The commission took one and half years to prepare the voters list with photographs with consent of all the political parties.
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