CEC reiterates remarks on Zia

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Staff Reporter :
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Thursday reiterated that Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder Ziaur Rahman restored multi-party democracy in the country.
The Chief Election Commissioner said, “I own the remarks which I had delivered about Ziaur Rahman during the Election Commission hosted pre-polls talks with the party.”
 “Yes I own my statement. I said it based on facts. I did not say Zia introduced multi-party democracy. Rather I said that Zia restored multi-party democracy,” he said.
The CEC met the media to share the Election Commission’s three-month series of talks with political parties and other stakeholders over the next national election.  
witnesses in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
A four-member bench led by acting Chief Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah fixed the date after hearing on the petition. A J Mohammad Ali stood for Khaleda Zia, while lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan for the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Earlier on October 22, the HC disposed with observation an appeal filed by Khaleda Zia seeking its directive for recording deposition of nine witnesses of state. Besides, the HC rejected an appeal filed for re-examining two witnesses of the case.
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