Staff Reporter :
Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday said, they have no plan so far to deploy Army in the upcoming Gazipur and Khulna City Corporation polls.
“We have no plan so far to deploy Army during the Khulna and Gazipur city corporations’ election,” Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed said while talking to journalists after the CEC and EC’s meeting with BNP’s six member delegation team at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the city’s Agargaon.
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda and other Election Commissioners were present on the occasion.
The election to the two city corporations will be held on May 15.
The BNP team led by its standing committee member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain met the EC.
The other members of the delegation were party standing committee members Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Vice-Chairman Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf.
“The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and other Election Commissioners said several times there is no decision as yet to deploy Army during any local government election,” the EC Secretary said.
The BNP has demanded deployment of army seven days before the elections at Khulna and Gazipur.
Helal Uddin Ahmed said the EC may accept the BNP’s all those proposals which are acceptable in light of the Constitutions and other rules and regulations.
