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EC in dilemma over DCC election
The Election Commission (EC) could not yet decide what steps it needs to take following the court stay on the elections to the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) billed for May 24.
“Today, we' couldn't reach any decision on the issue. We'll sit in another meeting within 2-3 days to take a decision,” Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed told reporters at his office yesterday emerging from a meeting.
The five-member commission led by CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed held the meeting in the afternoon to decide what steps were needed to be taken following the court stay on the DCC polls. EC's Counsel Shahdeen Malik and LGRD Secretary Abu Alam Md Shahid Khan were present.
Talking to journalists, the CEC said the EC's counsel asked the commission to allow him some days to deeply think of the legal matters before taking any decision. “So, the decision has to be taken later.”
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