A meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Monday was expected to review the proposal. The use of 'irrelevant' English names and words was discovered during the efforts to reform the election-related laws of local government bodies, the EC said in the proposal. An initiative has been taken to replace the 'unnecessary and foreign' names and words with Bangla terminology. The proposal has not gone down well in some quarters with the BNP criticising the initiative in a letter to the EC. English words such as chairman, councillor, city, corporation have found their place in the Bangla dictionary of Bangla Academy as synonyms of Bangla words.

Source: bd News24 August 10, 2020 07:52 UTC