Law should be made for independent EC: JP

or it in the current parliament. 
An 18-member delegation of Jatiya Party, led by its president HM Ershad, made the proposals during talks with president Abdul Hamid on the reconstitution of election commission at Bangabhaban in the afternoon.
Others on the delegation were leader of the opposition in parliament Raushon Ershad, minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, state ministers Moshiur Rahman Ranga and Mujibul Haque Chunnu, party secretary general Ruhul Amin Howlader, party co-chairman GM Quader and senior leaders MA Sattar, Kazi Firoz Rashid, Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, Syed Abul Hossain Babla, Fakhrul Imam, Salma Islam, Delwar Hossain, SM Faisal Chisty, ATU Taj Rahman, Tajul Islam Chowdhury and Khaled Akhter.
The president welcomed the Jatiya Party delegation and said an outline of how the election commission would be formed would come out of the ongoing talks with the political parties, said a release issued from Bangabhaban.
The President sought cooperation of all the political parties to form an acceptable election commission and underscored the need for discussion for democracy to flourish. 
The president kicked off the talks on EC reconstitution with Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday as the tenure of Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad-led commission would expire in February 2017.
Ruhul Amin Howlader, briefing the reporters at the party’s Kakrail office in the capital shortly after coming out of Bangabhaban, said during the one-and-a-half-hour talks, the president gave a patient hearing to their proposals. 
He termed the talks ‘fruitful’ and hoped that the president would decide on formation of an independent election commission after taking opinions of registered political parties and ensure holding of elections acceptable to all. 
Howlader informed that they told the president that it must be ensured that the election commission was free from any interference and had the power to appoint its own manpower. 
The party also proposed introduction of an election system on the basis of ‘proportional representation’ to ensure representation of qualified and dedicated party men in parliament. 
The party secretary general said that there was a provision in the constitution for enacting a law for the formation of an election commission and appointment of chief election commissioner and other commissioners. But, he lamented, no governments passed any law for the formation of EC to comply with the constitution in the last 45 years of country’s independence.
During the talks, Jatiya Party proposed nine criteria for consideration while appointing an election commissioner. 
For becoming an election commissioner, the party says, a person must have professional qualification, knowledge about electoral issues, physical and mental fitness and the qualities of impartiality, personal integrity and fairness. 
The president’s office on December 12 sent letters to five political parties inviting them to the separate talks. 
On Tuesday, the office invited six more political parties – Workers Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nationalist Front, Islami Oikya Jote, Jataiya Party (JP), Bangladesh Tariqat Federation and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP).
The president is also scheduled to hold the talks with Liberal Democratic Party and Krishak Sramik Janata League at 3:00pm and 4:30pm respectively on December 21 while with Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction, led by information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, at 3:00pm on December 22.

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