UNB :
The search committee on the Election Commission on Thursday submitted 10 names to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban.
The president will now review the names to pick five among them for appointment as chief election commissioner and four other commissioners, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said. Two names have been proposed for each post. He said the chosen names will soon be
published through gazette notification. bdnews24.com adds: Members of the search committee appointed to select nominees for the new Election Commission have travelled to the Bangabhaban to present 10 names for five election commissioners including their chief to President Md Abdul Hamid.
They entered the Bangabhaban on Thursday evening as they are scheduled to meet with the president at 7pm, said Hamid’s Press Secretary Md Joynal Abedin.
The president will form a new Election Commission by picking five from the search committee’s recommendations, and the new commission will be in charge of the 12th parliamentary elections.
However, the president-appointed chief of the panel, Justice Obaidul Hassan, is not attending the meeting owing to his being indisposed.
The other members of the committee – High Court judge Justice SM Kuddus Zaman, fiction writer Prof Anwara Syed Haq, Comptroller and Auditor General Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury, and Bangladesh Public Service Commission Chairman Md Sohorab Hossain — are in attendance.
Press Secretary Joynal had previously said, “The matter is completely in the president’s hands. He will make the appointments and when he wants to. The Cabinet Division will make it public after the presidential order.”
