Polls won’t be deferred further: CEC

The chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday said the EC had no more option to reschedule the polling date from December 30.

At a programme of returning officers at Nirbachon Bhaban in the capital, he said EC would not defer the polls as the Bishwa  Ijtema was offing and the EC needed some times to publish notifications into polls results in due time January 28, 2019.

On Monday, the EC rescheduled the 11th parliamentary elections for December 30 deferring the schedule it announced four days ago on November 8.

The EC came up with the revised schedule a day after the Jatiya Oikya Front decided to join the polls and demanded deferral of the schedule by one month.

The front leader ASM Abdur Rob at its steering committee meeting on Monday  told reporters that the alliance still stick to their demand for deferment of the schedule by one month.

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