New Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin says that the Election Commission cannot engage in any dishonesty after the 18-year war to safeguard voting rights culminated in the sacrifice of those martyred and wounded in the July uprising.
The CEC says that the new appointees will do all they can to ensure a free, fair, impartial, and acceptable election.
The new EC is to be sworn in by the chief justice once all the formalities are completed by the government.
“We can give an official reaction after all the formalities are complete,” Nasir said. “As we have been entrusted with this responsibility, we have to fulfil our duties properly with the cooperation of all concerned. Particularly after this massive uprising, where so many lives were lost, so much blood was shed, so many people were injured or disabled. A war has been fought for voting rights for 18 years. We cannot be dishonest in the face of all the blood shed.”
“In Sha Allah [God willing], we will do all that we can to hold free, fair and credible elections.”
The 71-year-old Nasir was born on Jul 1, 1953 in Cox’s Bazar’s Kutubdia.
