Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to regain its registration along with its traditional election symbol, the Scales (Dāripalla), very soon, a member of the Election Commission said yesterday.
“Jamaat-e-Islami will soon get back its registration. We are taking necessary steps. The Election Com-mission has made a decision in this regard,” Election Commissioner Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah told re-porters following a meeting at the Election Commission Secretariat in Agargaon.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin presided over the meeting, which was attended by other commissioners and senior officials.
Speaking about the party’s electoral symbol, Commissioner Sanaullah said the EC has taken a policy decision to return the scales symbol to Jamaat-e-Islami.
While taking the decision to return ‘Scales’ symbol to Jamaat, the EC considered the Appellate Divi-sion’s directive to return the status quo ante, the registration notification issued on November 05, 2008 that awarded registration with ‘Scales’ symbol to Jamaat, the Article 90F (1) (b) of Representation of People Order (RPO) 1972 that states the symbols so allotted shall be kept reserved for it, unless it indi-cates its preference for any other prescribed symbol available, and other court’s directives and observa-tions.
