Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has urged the polls monitoring organisations not to pick people affiliated with politics as election observer. “You’ll have to be careful so that no person linked to politics can be appointed as election observer,” he said at the Election Commission’s dialogue with the polls monitoring organisations on Sunday. Some 30 representatives from the election monitoring organisations attended the meeting began at 11am in Dhaka’s Nirbachon Bhaban with the CEC in the chair. KM Nurul Huda called upon the organisations to perform the responsibility maintaining neutrality and impartiality. He also asked the organisations to remain careful so that their monitoring activities do not hamper the vote-casting process.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 22, 2017 09:56 UTC