DHAKA, Jan 10, 2019 (BSS) – The Election Commission will declare the
election schedule in the next week for the reserved seats for women in the
Jatiya Sangsad.
“The polls schedule for the women reserved seats will be announced in the
next week… As per the seats secured by the political parties in the last
general election, Awami League will get 43 seats, Jatiya Party four, Oikya
Front one and independent candidates and other parties will get two seats,”
EC Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed told reporters at his office at Nirbachan
Bhaban in city’s Agargaon.
He also informed that the fifth upazila election will be held from the
first week of March in phases.
Ahmed said the works of making voter lists of expatriate Bangladeshis will
begin from April. At the beginning, the Bangladeshi expatriates in Singapore
will be enlisted as pilot project, he added.
A team of the EC will go Singapore within five to seven days in this
regard, he said, adding another team will visit Dubai later.