Chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda on Monday said the Election Commission would not wait for the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party any more for finalising its proposals for election reforms including introduction of electronic voting machine.
'We have already sent two letters inviting BNP leaders to join the dialogue. We will have nothing to do if they fail to join the meeting,' Shamsul said while speaking at a workshop organised by the Commonwealth Election Working Group at a Dhaka hotel.
The commission will continue to use the electronic voting machine in different local elections, he said, adding that the EVM might not be used in the next parliamentary elections.
'But,' he said, 'there is no problem in trying it in local elections.'
About violence and the incidents of ballot snatching that have been taking place during the ongoing elections to the union parishads, the CEC said the EVM was the only remedy to such maladies.
Source : New Age
