Election schedule after Oct 30: EC

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DHAKA, Sept 10, 2018 (BSS) – The Election Commission (EC) will announce
the schedule of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad election at any moment after October
30, Election Commission (EC) secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said today.

“The polls day countdown will start from October 30…election schedule
will be announced at any time after then,” he told reporters at Election
Commission office, Agargaon, here.

The EC spokesman hoped that all political parties would take part in the
next general polls.

He said the EC has already completed 80 percent of the polls
preparations. “The CDs (compact disc) containing the delimitation of 300
electoral constituencies and the list of 10.41 crore voters have already been
prepared.”

The EC secretary said the CDs will also be sent to all district and
upazila headquarters by September 25 from where this will be printed.

Referring to the list of draft voting centres published on August 5,
Helal said the final voting centres at grassroots level were published on
September 6. “Later, the final list of voting centres will be published
through a gazette notification 25 days before the election,” he said.