The Chattogram City Corporation election along with the by-elections to Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 was set to go ahead in March but were later postponed until April. Nevertheless, the constitution and election law do allow the chief election commissioner an additional 90 days to arrange polls if the delays are caused due to a natural disaster. The constitution allows the chief election commissioner to appeal to the Supreme Court for another extension through the president,” said the CEC. “We’ll resume plans to arrange the scheduled local government elections from where we left off earlier. Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar, Md Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam, Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury and Senior Secretary Md Alamgir took part in the online meeting.

Source: bd News24 May 21, 2020 08:37 UTC