Voter list updating starts in May
The Election Commission will start next month updating the voter list with photograph across the country to include the new and leftout voters.
“The task of updating the voter list will start from May,” Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain said while exchanging views with media men here yesterday.
Door to door visit will be made for collecting data. First priority will be given to those who reached 18 in January this year. Those died will be dropped from the list, he said.
Sakhawat said EC is now independent and it has to be further strengthened. Positive responses have been received from both Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Awami League (AL) in this regard.
Earlier, he held meeting with officials and exchanged views on setting up server station.
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