Staff Reporter
The interim government yesterday announced that no official who was involved in any capacity, includ-ing returning officers, assistant returning officers, presiding officers, or polling officers, in the last three national elections would be engaged in the upcoming parliamentary election.
The decision came from a high-level meeting on election preparations, presided over by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna.
Briefing reporters at the Foreign Service Academy, Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said the meeting focused on mainly four issues – the posting of field-level officials and countering misinfor-mation and disinformation on social media during the election period, training of election officials and ensuring security.
The meeting laid emphasis on field administration so that no official involved in the last three elections could be posted as deputy commissioner, additional district commissioner, UNO, district magistrate or other magisterial roles during the next election process.
“The officials who acted as returning officers, polling officers or assistant returning officers in the last three elections and if they played even minimum roles in the three election should not be engaged this time (in the general election),” Shafiqul Alam said, quoting the decisions of the meeting.
He said the Election Commission informed that they have already taken major steps in this regard and the commission is working to keep such officials out of the election process.
