BSS
  13 Mar 2022, 19:43
Update : 13 Mar 2022, 19:49

'EC wants to hold participatory elections'

 DHAKA, March 13, 2022 (BSS) - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul 
Awal today said the Commission is taking opinion from the stakeholders to 
make the next general elections a participatory and inclusive one.

"We want to hold a more participatory general election. That's why we will be 
enriched from the opinion of teachers," he told a dialogue here. 

 The dialogue was arranged with teachers at Nirbachan Bhaban.

 Awal said the aim of the newly formed EC has already been exposed, while its 
work is to hold the parliamentary elections and polls to the local government 
bodies. 

 The actual opinion of people will be taken by holding the dialogues, he 
said, adding that the Commission is taking opinion from the stakeholders 
concerned to understand what it should do to hold free, fair and 
participatory elections.

 Prof Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Prof Dr M Anwar Hossain of Dhaka University, 
Prof Dr Abdul Mannan Chowdhury of World University of Bangladesh, Prof M Abul 
Kasem Majumder and Prof Dr Sadeka Halim of Dhaka University, Dr Burhan Uddin 
Khan, Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, Dr Akhter Hossain, Lailufar Yesmine, 
vice-chancellor of Southeast University Prof Dr AFM Mofizul Islam, Prof 
Muhammad Yahiya Akhter of Chittagong University, Al Masud Hasanuzzaman of 
Jahangirnagar University and pro-vice chancellor of Independent University Dr 
Niaz Ahmad Khan, among others, joined the meeting.

 Election Commissioners Begum Rashida Sultana, Brigadier General (Retd) Ahsan 
Habib Khan and Md Alamgir and Anisur Rahman were present.