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Download PDF The Election Commission (EC) will decide within a few days about holding the Upazila Parishad polls before the general elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said yesterday.
“You will know about it within two to four days. We shall sit to evaluate our capacity to hold the upazila elections”, the CEC said while briefing journalists at the end of hearing on appeals against the delimitation of parliamentary seats of Rajshahi division at the Rajshahi deputy commissioner’s conference room.
He said the EC will fix the dates for holding elections to Upazila Parishads, but no polls can be held during the month of Ramadan in September, he added.
“We shall not do anything that can throw the holding of the parliamentary elections into question,” said the CEC replying to a query.
“We shall keep October-December period free for holding the general elections,” he said.
Replying to another question, the CEC said, “It is not correct that the national elections will not be held if the local body polls are held first”.
Election commissioners Sohul Hossain and Brig Gen (Retd) Shakhawat Hossain, among others, were present.
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