Staff Reporter :
The six-member Search Committee is likely to propose ten names to the President on Tuesday for constituting the next Election Commission (EC).
The names will be finalized at the Monday’s meeting of the Search Committee, sources said on Saturday.
Additional Cabinet Secretary Abdul Wadud earlier told reporters that the panel’s next meeting would be held at the Supreme Court Judges’ Lounge on Monday.
Sources said, the Search panel would finalise names from among the 20 shortlisted people who’s name earlier proposed by political parties.
It would propose names of two former bureaucrats for the post of Chief Election Commissioner. At the same time, it would recommend eight names, including two women, having different professional backgrounds for the post of Commissioners.
The President will pick up five of them for the post of Chief Election Commissioner and commissioners. He would reconstitute the EC with inclusion of one female commissioner, according to the sources.
On January 25, President Abdul Hamid formed the Search panel, he aded by Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, after holding a series of talks with 31 political parties on EC formation.
