The Electoral Reform Payment (ERC) is reviewing the irregularities reported for the length of the final three recurring elections held in 2014, 2018 and 2024 to counsel punishment for the responsible folks, the associated price chief Dr Badiul Alam Majumder acknowledged this day (21 November).
“We’re reviewing election offences in the final three elections so that such issues fabricate no longer occur anymore in future,” he acknowledged while talking to newshounds after a views-alternate meeting with editors and senior journalists of print and on-line media on the Nirbachan Bhaban in the metropolis.
In reply to a inquire, he acknowledged there would be solutions in their recount for punishing these that had been accountable for election irregularities in the final three national elections.
About the outcomes of the interactions, Dr Majumder acknowledged the journalists placed a host of solutions, including restoration of caretaker authorities, scheme of the rotation-basically based divulge election to the reserve seats of parliament, growing the number of reserve seats to 100 from recent 50 ones, scheme of native physique elections earlier than the standard election.
Rising from the meeting, senior journalist Golam Mortoza told newshounds that he proposed the reform price to sit down with the final three chief election commissioners to grab as to why they arranged such nefarious and voterless elections, and who directed them to manufacture so.
He moreover asked the reform price to counsel punishment for these that had been accountable for irregularities in the final three national elections.
The outdated three CECs are Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, KM Nurul Huda and Kazi Habibul Awal.
Effectively-known journalist Sohrab Hassan acknowledged the express can possess to bear the costs of election campaigns in a describe to prevent the utilization of cash in elections.
Journalist Masud Kamal acknowledged he proposed restoration of the caretaker authorities system, retaining native authorities elections moreover below the caretaker authorities, and preparation of national identity cards-basically based electoral rolls.
Within the afternoon, the reform price sat in a single other views-alternate meeting with election observers.
