EC wants full authority to hold elections to local government bodies; BCL vows to free Sheikh Hasina through a mass movement
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New Age quoting Election Commissioner M. Sakhawat Hussain reported that the EC preferred full authority to hold local body elections on its own. At present, the commission can hold local body elections only when the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development requested it to do so. 1
Elsewhere, the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student front of the Awami League, vowed to free the detained Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina through a mass movement. The declaration came at a function to celebrate the organization’s 60th founding anniversary held in Dhaka on January 4.
- 1. “EC wants authority to decide when to conduct local government elections”, New Age, January 4, 2008, at http://www.newagebd.com/2008/jan/04/front.html#3