EC sits today on Jamaat's registration

In the face of a growing demand for banning Jamaat-e-Islami, the Election Commission sits today to decide the fate of the party's registration with the EC.
“The Jamaat-e-Islami was given ample time to correct its charter in line
with the registration criteria. We have asked our law section to identify
if any provision in Jamaat's charter contradicts the RPO and
country's constitution. We will discuss in detail the issue tomorrow [today] and reach a decision,” Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Zabed Ali told reporters at his office yesterday.
The EC on Tuesday, he said, expressed its solidarity with the youths (protesting in Shahbagh) by standing up in silence for three minutes at the EC secretariat.
Experts said the aims and objectives and some other provisions in Jamaat's charter still do not conform to the country's constitution and Representation of the People Order (RPO), a legal framework for parliamentary polls.
Zabed said the EC has sent four letters to Jamaat to correct its charter in conformity with the RPO. But the commission did not receive satisfactory response from the Islamist party.
Jamaat's charter refuses to obey the country's existing law and judicial system, he added.
Section 90 (H) of the RPO empowers the EC to cancel the registration of any political party.
Before the 2008 parliamentary election, registration was made mandatory for the political parties to contest polls. The Jamaat along with 38 other political parties got registered with the EC pledging to bring necessary changes to their charters in line with the RPO.
But once the poll was over, Jamaat did not act to keep its pledge.
Led by a group of youths under the banner of Bloggers and Online Activists Network, thousands of protesters have been staging a sit-in at the Shahbagh intersection in the capital since February 5 demanding capital punishment to war criminals and a ban on Jamaat.