Election Commission announced temporary postponement of the Begum Rokeya University Central Students Union (BRUCSU) and Hall Students Union election today. Photo: BSS

RANGPUR, Dec 1, 2025 (BSS) - The Election Commission has announced temporary 
postponement of the Begum Rokeya University Central Students Union (BRUCSU) 
and Hall Students Union election process due to errors and complications in 
the voter list. 
 
As per the announced schedule for BRUCSU Elections-2025, the distribution of 
nomination papers began on Sunday (November 30) and continued till Monday 
afternoon. 
 
The Election Commission announced this decision of postponement of BRUCSU 
Election-2025 in a press briefing in front of the administrative building on 
Monday at 4:30 pm. 
 
While announcing the postponement, Election Commissioner Dr Mohsina Ahsan on 
behalf of the six-member Election Commission said that the distribution of 
nomination papers and other activities in the schedule will be suspended 
until the inconsistencies in the hall-based voter list are resolved. 
 
She said the voter list and hall-related documents provided by the university 
registrar after the Election Commission applied to him for the hall-based 
voter list were found to contain several serious inconsistencies, incorrect 
information and incompleteness. 
 
In this situation, continuing the distribution of nomination papers based on 
the incorrect and inconsistent voter list will go against electoral fairness, 
transparency and acceptability. 
 
Based on this list, distributing nomination papers will create legal 
complications among the candidates, she added. 

It is not possible to continue the election process without correcting the 
incorrect voter list. 
 
She called upon the university administration to investigate whether any 
person in the departments concerned from whom the incorrect information was 
provided had any malicious intention to discredit the Election Commission to 
the students. 
 
The Election Commissioner urged the Registrar's Office to promptly correct 
all the errors, omissions, duplications and inconsistencies in the hall-based 
voter list and provide a revised and verified voter list so that the election 
process can be resumed without delay. 
 
She also said that the Election Commission will not bow to any pressure and 
continue the flawed election process until it receives correct information 
and documents. 
 
At this time, Chief Election Commissioner Professor Dr Md Shahzaman, Election 
Commissioners Md Amir Sharif, Md Masud Rana, Dr Mohsina Ahsan, Md Hasan Ali 
and Dr Pradeep Kumar Sarkar were present. 
 
Talking to BSS at 7:15 pm, Vice-chancellor (VC) of the university Prof Dr Md 
Showkat Ali said steps have been taken to make the voter list correct so that 
the Election Commission could resume the election process from tomorrow. 
 
"The departments or persons involved in this activity of preparing voter 
lists with errors will be held accountable, if found responsible," he said.