Bangladesh is going to polls on Dec 30, 2018 to elect the members of parliament.
EC rejects demand for election delay
The Election Commission has decided not to defer the upcoming 11th parliamentary polls, now slated for Dec 30.
Published : 15 Nov 2018, 11:30 AM
Updated : 15 Nov 2018, 12:49 PM
“There is no scope for pushing back the election for some legal and constitutional reasons,” EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed said on Thursday.
The EC’s decision came in response to the Jatiya Oikya Front’s call for deferring the polls date by a month.
The commission revised the polls schedule, deferring the election by a week. It set Nov 28 as the deadline for filing nominations, Dec 2 for scrutiny and Dec 9 as the last date of withdrawal.
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