EC to sit with 12 more parties including Jamaat Monday
NN ONLINE:
The Election Commission (EC) will hold talks on Monday with 12 more registered political parties, including Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, as part of its ongoing dialogue ahead of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) election. The dialogue that began on Thursday will take place at the conference hall of the Election Building in the capital’s Agargaon with Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin in the chair, said EC officials.
Talking to BSS, Md. Ashadul Haque, Assistant Director (Public Relations) and Alternative Information Officer at the EC Secretariat, today said that the session from 10:30am to 12:30pm will involve discussions with Bangladesh Labour Party, Bangladesh Sangskritik Muktijote, Bangladesh National Awami Party, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh, Bangladesh Kalyan Party, and Bangladesh Muslim League-BML. Besides, from 2pm to 4pm, the EC will meet Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party), Bangladesh Development Party, Bangladesh Islami Front, Khelafat Majlis, and National Democratic Party-Jagpa.
However, as part of the dialogue, separately on Sunday, the EC will hold two dialogue sessions. The first from 10am to 12pm with Gonoforum, Gonofront, Islamic Front Bangladesh, Islami Oikya Jote, Bangladesh Supreme Party (BSP), and Bangladesh National Party, while the second from 2pm to 4pm with Bangladesh Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal- Bangladesh Jasad, Bangladesh National Awami Party- Bangladesh NAP, Trinomul BNP, Krishak Shromik Janata League, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, and Islami Andolon Bangladesh.
On the first day of the dialogue on last Thursday, the EC had held two sessions with 12 parties. EC officials said the discussions with political parties will cover steps to be taken by candidates and parties before the election schedule is announced, adherence to the code of conduct after schedule announcement, signing of pledges with the EC and returning officers, appointment and management of election agents, prevention of misinformation and disinformation, regulation of AI misuse in elections, ensuring communal harmony, prohibition of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, or religion, and preventing the use of religious places for political campaigning.