EC to examine political parties’ applications for registration

Staff Reporter :
The Election Commission (EC) has started scrutinising the political parties’ petitions for registration as to whether the political parties have fulfilled the EC’s required conditions.
According to EC’s registration rules, political parties’ have to submit nine types of informations including relatives documents. The registration will depend on submission.
On the issue, EC Commissioner Md Alamgir said that verification for registration of applications is going on. A committee of the EC Secretariat has been formed in this regard.
EC officials said that none of the parties seeking new registration has submitted invoices, none of them is consistent with the full list of names and titles of the central committee, none of the parties has constitution, there is no documentary evidence of meeting the minimum conditions for registration of any party or there is a shortage of important documents. Again, the work of selection is going on whether the information of the parties in the application is correct or not.
Convener of the committee, EC Additional Secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath said, review of 93 applications has started. Efforts are underway to present the EC for consideration within a week. We will cover the issue of data documentation through a prescribed checklist. If the commission decides, I will take the next step.
Abdul Halim Khan, member-secretary of the committee and deputy secretary of the EC, said that the work is going on in three-four stages. Responsible officers are initially checking the application forms and attached documents. As per the decision of the EC, the parties whose application will be disqualified. Along with this, 15 days will be given for correction, disposal of objections, investigation at field level, correction of errors according to the rules. Thereafter the gazette regarding registration will be published if eligible.