Staff Reporter:
The Election Commission (EC) has invited applications from the new political parties by April 20 next to get registered ahead of the next national election.
The EC on Monday issued a public notification seeking applications from the parties that are capable of fulfilling the registration conditions mentioned in the Political Party Registration Rules 2008.
New political parties are registered with the Election Commission in line with Article 90A of the Repre-sentation of the People Order, 1972.
If a party is registered with the EC, it can contest the national election with its own electoral symbol.
A political party that is keen to get registered must attach necessary documents with its application.
The necessary documents include party’s charter; election manifesto, if available; party’s rules, if available; party’s logo and picture of party’s flag; the names and designation of all members of party’s central executive committee or equivalent committee; information related to party’s bank account, bank’s name and the latest balance in account; party’s funding sources statement; and a letter that provided the authority to the person concern to apply for party registration.
A political party that desires to get registered will have to submit the copy of the treasury challan depos-ited with the Secretary of Election Commission Secretariat for the non-refundable registration fee of Tk 5,000 (code number for treasury deposit -1060101100125-110000000-11001000-1422204).
Besides, the party must submit the documents in favour of securing at least one seat with its electoral symbol in any parliamentary election held since the independence of Bangladesh, or the document of securing five percent of total votes cast in the constituencies in which its candidates took part in any of the aforesaid parliamentary elections; or the document of establishing a functional central office, by whatever name it may be called with a central committee, functional district offices in at least in one-third administrative districts, functional offices in at least one hundred upazilas or metropolitan thanas having a minimum number of two hundred voters as its members in each of them.
