BNP to submit proposed names to search committee

MNA National Desk: A BNP delegation on Tuesday will go to the secretariat for submitting the proposed names to the search committee for constituting new Election Commission (EC).

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s personal secretary ABM Abdus Sattar to submit the list of names around 11:00am.

BNP standing committee hold a meeting at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office for making decision over submitting five names to the search committee for constituting the new EC.

Earliar, BNP in consultation with its allies on Monday night finalised the list of names for submission to the search committee for reconstitution of the Election Commission.

Standing committee members including Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, Mahbubur Rahman, Tariqul Islam, Mirza Abbas, Rafiqul Islam Mia and Nazrul Islam Khan were present during the meeting.

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday formed a six-member search committee, headed by Supreme Court’s Appellate Division judge Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, for reconstituting the EC.