EC to hold meeting on Sunday to finalize election schedule

EC to hold meeting on Sunday to finalize election schedule

Dhaka, Nov 1 (Just News): The Election Commission will hold a meeting on Sunday to finalize the schedule of the 11th parliamentary election and decide when it will be announced.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda made the announcement while briefing the media outside Bangabhaban after a meeting with President Md Abdul Hamid on Thursday.

He said the commission had completed all the preparations for the election and could hold it in seven days’ notice.

Huda, however, declined to comment when asked about the matter of BNP’s participation in the polls.

Led by the CEC, the four election commissioners and the commission secretary met with the president in the afternoon to inform him of the overall preparations for the national polls.

The Election Commission plans to hold the election in the last week of December.