Desk Report
Publish: 17 Jul 2022, 06:34 pm
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal || Photo: Collected
Chief
Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Sunday urged the political
parties to stay in the election field saying that the Commission will fail if
all political parties don’t cooperate with it.
“You must
have a concerted effort. If someone stands with a sword, you should stand with
a rifle or another sword. If you run, what do I do? We will help. We’ll have
command over the police and the government,” he said.
The CEC
made the remarks at the meeting with a team of the Nationalist Democratic Movement
(NDM), which was held at the Nirbachan Bhaban here, opening the EC’s dialogues
with registered political parties.
"We
can’t stop the violence. You (political parties) also have to take
responsibility. You are the players. You play on the field. We’re the referees.
We’ve huge power. The power is not less. We’ll apply the power,” he said.
Habibul
asked the people not to judge the existing commission by the performances of
the last two general elections in 2014 and 2018. “We’ll take responsibility for
the elections conducted by us. We will make every effort to make the election
participatory and impartial. If all parties do not cooperate, we will fail
there,” he said.
In
response to CEC's statement, NDM chairman Bobby Hajjaj said that the law
doesn’t permit standing with shotguns. However, the CEC did not make any further
comments in response.
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