Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has submitted 18 recommendations to the Election Commission (EC) to ensure free, fair and impartial 13th national elections.
A seven-member delegation, led by Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Prof Mia Golam Porwar, met with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin at the Election Commission building in the capital’s Agargaon on Tuesday.
The delegation included Jamaat’s Assistant Secretary General Maulana ATM Masum, Rafiqul Islam Khan, and Hamidur Rahman Azad, among others. Four election commissioners attended on behalf of the EC.
After the meeting, Jamaat’s Secretary General Porwar said, “We have presented 18 demands. The demands were discussed and analysed in detail, and the election commissioners highlighted their actions, challenges, and possibilities. They sought cooperation from political parties, especially from Jamaat-e-Islami. The Jamaat leaders described the meeting atmosphere as ‘open and cordial’ and expressed satisfaction with the sincere efforts of the Election Commission.”
Jamaat’s proposals included a November referendum after the July Charter implementation order to provide a legal basis for the charter; retaining the amended Article 20 of the Representation of the People Order so that each party must use its own symbol; and ensuring complete neutrality of EC and administrative staff at all levels.
The party also demanded impartial appointments of presiding, polling, Ansar and law enforcement personnel; deployment of adequate military forces at all polling stations; and installation of CCTV cameras inside polling booths.
It further called for excluding officials with controversial records from election duties, and for field-level appointments such as DC, SP, UNO and OC to be made strictly by lottery.
Jamaat urged the EC to appoint returning officers from both the civil administration and its own experienced cadre on a neutral basis, to ensure a strict security stance by the military, BGB, RAB and police for at least a week before polling, and to guarantee a level playing field for all parties.
Other demands include recovery of illegal firearms nationwide, cancellation and surrender of politically issued weapon licences, arrest of those spreading fear with illegal arms, and immediate suppression of any violence to ensure safe voter access to polling centres.
Jamaat also pressed for the correction of unclear voter photos and timely supply of photo voter lists to polling agents; postal ballots for all polling officials and law enforcers; facilitation of expatriate voting by either voter ID or passport, with advance disclosure of the expatriate voter list; vetting of election observers for neutrality; and relocation of previously changed or “risky” polling stations based on complaints.
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