DHAKA, Oct. 18 ,, The Bangladesh Election Commission said on Thursday that it will announce the schedule for the upcoming
parliamentary polls in the 1st week of November.
Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed made the
statement while talking to journalists after a program on Thursday in
capital Dhaka.
He had earlier said the third week of December is an appropriate
time for holding the national elections as the term of Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Awami League (AL) party will end in January,
2019.
No specific date for the country’s 11th national elections has yet
been fixed.
AL, which rose to power with a landslide election victory in early
2009 and won its second term in 2014, now eyes for the third
consecutive victory.
AL is facing challenges from former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies, which boycotted the
2014 elections.
BNP has been demanding parliament polls under a non-party
government and release of Khaleda Zia who was jailed in February for
five years in a graft case. Enditem
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