Special step taken to enrol Khaleda, other left-out VIPs
The Election Commission (EC) is making a special arrangement to register former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and other VIPs, left out during the nationwide voter-listing drive, as voters.
Apart from the VIPs, the EC will also consider the enrolment of those who remain out of the voter list.
“The commission will exercise its special powers to register the VIPs and others who were left out of the voter list,” EC Secretary M Humayun Kabir told a press briefing at his office yesterday.
He said instructions have been sent to the district election offices to scrutinise whether anybody was excluded from the voter list. “This matter will be finalised within the next week,” he said.
The EC will also consider the matter of those who now want to change their voter-registration areas for contesting the upcoming upazila elections.
The EC secretary said the commission will launch a pilot project in November to assess what methodology will be used for updating the voter list every year.
Asked about Khaleda Zia's voter registration, he urged the reporters to wait for getting information about this issue.
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