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Download PDF Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the commission wants to hold the local government polls at the end of April or in the middle of May this year.
“If possible, the EC wants to hold elections to four city corporations. We also want to hold election to Dhaka City Corporation before the national elections,” he said while addressing a training programme on voter list with photograph and national identity card at Shilpakala Academy in Goalanda upazila in the morning.
He made it clear that their first target is to hold the national elections on completion of the voter list and the polls will be held within the year 2008. “We are also considering whether the upazila and national elections could be held together,” he added.
The CEC noted that if anyone missed national identity card, then he/she would have to face many hurdles in the future.
Presided over by Rajbari Deputy Commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by Brig Gen Shah Atiqur Rahman, Acting Police Superintendent Mahfuzur Rahman, District Election Officer Rakib Uddin Mondal, Goalanda Upazila Nirbahi Officer M Moniruzzaman and elected local representatives and civil society members.
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