President asks EC to maintain neutrality
President Zillur Rahman receives the recently prepared “Constituency maps of Bangladesh” from Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda and Election Commissioners Muhammad Sahul Hossain and Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain at Bangabhaban yesterday. Photo: PID
President Zillur Rahman yesterday called upon the Election Commission (EC) to maintain utmost transparency and neutrality in holding national and other local body elections in the country. The president made the call when Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda with the two other Election Commissioners called on him at Bangabhaban and handed over the Bangladesh map showing the newly delimited constituencies. Election Commissioners Muhammed Sohul Hussain and Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain accompanied the CEC. During the meeting, the president said that an independent Election Commission (EC) could play a significant role in developing and institutionalising democracy in the country. He expressed the hope that the EC would discharge its duties reflecting the people's welfare and expectation. The EC has currently delimited the constituencies to remove the anomalies in the number of voters. According to the Constitution, the whole country was earlier divided into 300 constituencies but there was huge difference in number of voters in many parliamentary constituencies. The EC has now demarcated the constituencies keeping the number of voters at rational levels. The president lauded the EC for completing the delimitation task with a sense of responsibility.
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