DCC polls chapter 'closed' now
Says EC commissioner
The Election Commission (EC) continues to backtrack on holding the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) elections.
“I do not want to make any comment about the DCC elections. This chapter is closed now. The government may have a political plan about the DCC elections,” Election Commissioner M Shakwat Hossain told journalists at his office yesterday.
Referring to the recent comment of LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on union parishad, municipal and DCC elections, Shakwat said the EC is always ready to arrange all local government elections, as well as the DCC elections.
He said as per the election rules, the local government elections are being held within 180 days of the conclusion of their five-year term.
“But, the five-year period has already expired, after negotiating with the local government ministry the EC has to move towards holding these elections,” he said.
Shakwat said it will be very difficult to arrange these elections after next March-April due to ghastly weather.
Replying to a question, he said the EC will hold dialogues with the political parties within this year.
“We have been working to arrange dialogues with the political parties. A little work remains to arrange the dialogues,” he said.
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