UNB, Dhaka :
Claiming that the statistic of Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) over the declining share of female voters is
authentic, the non-government organisation on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission published untrue and half true information in this regard.
“We want to say unequivocally that the source of the statistics published by Sujan is the Election Commission. There’s no error in the Sujan’s statistics. Besides, it was not published for creating any confusion, rather we think that the Election Commission published untrue and half true information in its press release,” said a Sujan press release signed by its president M Hafizuddin Khan and secretary Dr Badiul Alam Majumder.
The release said Sujan in its written statement at its recent press conference said a total of 4,695,650 fresh voters came out till November 2014 as per
the latest voter list factsheet uploaded on the EC’s website. Of them, females were 2,066,144 against 2,629,506 males.
Among the fresh voters, the gender gap was 12 percent that means there were 44 female voters against 56 male voters. “We didn’t say anywhere of our written statement that the gender gap is 12 percent among the number of total voters,” Sujan said.
Among the fresh voters registered in the voter lists in 2014-2015, the gender gap between male and female is more than 10 percent in 28 districts out of 64 in the country, it noted.
Claiming that the statistic of Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) over the declining share of female voters is
authentic, the non-government organisation on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission published untrue and half true information in this regard.
“We want to say unequivocally that the source of the statistics published by Sujan is the Election Commission. There’s no error in the Sujan’s statistics. Besides, it was not published for creating any confusion, rather we think that the Election Commission published untrue and half true information in its press release,” said a Sujan press release signed by its president M Hafizuddin Khan and secretary Dr Badiul Alam Majumder.
The release said Sujan in its written statement at its recent press conference said a total of 4,695,650 fresh voters came out till November 2014 as per
the latest voter list factsheet uploaded on the EC’s website. Of them, females were 2,066,144 against 2,629,506 males.
Among the fresh voters, the gender gap was 12 percent that means there were 44 female voters against 56 male voters. “We didn’t say anywhere of our written statement that the gender gap is 12 percent among the number of total voters,” Sujan said.
Among the fresh voters registered in the voter lists in 2014-2015, the gender gap between male and female is more than 10 percent in 28 districts out of 64 in the country, it noted.
