Leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) held a sit-in exterior the Election Fee headquarters in Agargaon, Dhaka, as we speak, accusing the fee of bias in postal poll and pupil union election rulings.
The protest started round 10:00am, with JCD leaders and activists gathering in entrance of the EC.
Talking on the protest, JCD President Rakibul Islam, “We now have seen {that a} particular political group exerted affect to hold out such actions associated to poll papers, and people sitting contained in the Election Fee couldn’t have been unaware of it. These incidents came about with their direct instigation and assist,” he alleged.
Rakibul additional claimed that related discrimination was being repeated in pupil union polls, together with Shahjalal College of Science and Expertise’s (SUST) upcoming central pupil union and corridor elections, in addition to current elections at Jagannath College.
“In all these instances, we’re being intentionally undermined, and the Election Fee has performed a job in it,” he mentioned, including that the state of affairs displays the affect of the scholar wing of a specific political occasion.
JCD leaders mentioned their protest was based mostly on three calls for: an finish to what they described because the EC’s biased and questionable selections concerning postal ballots; avoidance of “rash selections” taken underneath political stress; and withdrawal of what they termed an unprecedented and controversial directive concerning the SUST pupil union election.
On January 15, the Election Fee allowed SUST to carry its pupil and corridor union elections as scheduled on January 20.
In the meantime, the ninth and last day of attraction hearings in opposition to Returning Officers’ selections on nomination papers for the thirteenth nationwide election was underway contained in the EC auditorium as we speak. The hearings are being performed by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin and 4 different commissioners.
In line with the EC, 398 aspirants regained their candidacy over the previous eight days of hearings. Electoral symbols will likely be distributed to last candidates on Tuesday, whereas campaigning is ready to start on Wednesday.
Earlier, 2,568 aspirants submitted nomination papers for the thirteenth nationwide election by the December 29 deadline. Following scrutiny, the EC declared 1,842 nominations legitimate and 723 invalid on January 4. A complete of 645 appeals had been filed between January 5 and 9.
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