BNP has decided on principle to send names of their preferred election commissioners to the president’s search committee.
It was decided at a meeting of the party’s standing committee last night that names would be recommended as per the search committee’s request, sources present at the meeting told the Dhaka Tribune.
However the party has not decided who to recommend.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, however, said the meeting had been postponed and would be continued today.
“We will tell you all about our decisions tomorrow,” he said.
The meeting was held from 9:30pm to 10:45pm yesterday at BNP chairperson’s office in Gulshan.
On Saturday, the search committee asked 31 registered political parties to propose five names each for the EC.
Earlier yesterday, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told reporters he did not expect much from the committee.
He argued that the government’s previous actions had not led to political consensus.
“In the past there were talks regarding the formation of the EC but they resulted in nothing,” he said.
“Eminent personalities were consulted when the constitution was amended but the caretaker government provision was dropped. Many Awami League leaders opposed the government decision. But it only reflected a particular person’s will,” said the BNP leader.
He added that there was a chance that the same person’s will would be reflected again.
“The nation doubts whether the Election Commission will be fairly selected, since the search committee members are all ruling party-leaning people,” he said.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
