EC to act unbiased for holding nat’l polls: CEC
Staff Reporter :
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM NasirUddin has said that the EC will act impartially to hold a free, fair, credible and acceptable to all election further adding that it is Commission’s sole objective and there is no personal agenda to implement.
CEC made the comments while addressing a discussion at NirbachanBhaban in the capital, marking National Voter Day 2025.
AMM NasirUddin said our only agenda is to ensure a fair, beautiful and acceptable election. We are working to deliver what we have promised.
This year, National Voter Day is being observed with the theme “We will cast votes together in your and my Bangladesh” (Tomar Amar Bangladeshe, Vote DiboMilemishe).
NasirUddin said, “We have no personal agenda. We are not here to implement anyone else’s agenda. Our agenda is the agenda of 18 crore people. Our agenda is Bangladesh’s agenda.”
He asked the election officials to make a promise in the holy month of Ramadan that they would work impartially.
Referring to past flawed elections, he urged election officials to focus on the future, not wasting time by doing post-mortems of these elections. “Dead (flawed) elections were held in the past.
How many more postmortems will we do on this dead
body? How much more time will we lament for these?” he said.
During his different field-level visits, the officials informed him that they had to work in many ways under these circumstances for various reasons, said the CEC.
“I told them, ‘let’s forget about it and move forward. Will we keep performing post-mortems of a corpse and continue lamenting? The day for lamenting is over,'” he said.
The CEC said election engineering and vote manipulation never bring a good result finally for any one.
Though anyone can get victory for the time being by resorting to election engineering and vote violence, but in the end it is not good for them, the country and the people, he said.
NasirUddin urged the 180 million people of the country to stand by them as his commission is in a fight to establish their rights.
Noting that people have not been able to vote for a long time, he said now it is the time to establish the right to vote.
The voting cannot be seen as just a right now rather it is now also the responsibility of the citizen, he said.
The CEC said people have high expectations from them unlike other past election commissions. “Now people’s expectations have increased a lot. It has made us think about how we will fulfill these expectations,” he said.