The Election Commission has taken initiatives to reshuffle government officials working at the Secretariat and field level offices ahead of the upcoming elections.
The reshuffling is likely to be finished before the polls schedules are announced. The commission is collecting information about the regional, district and upazila election officers and government employees across the country, a source said.
A special intelligence team has reportedly submitted the relevant information to the EC regarding the political preferences of the field level election officials.
The election management wing of the EC has sent a note to the manpower wing containing information of all election officials, an EC official has said.
He added that the commission was collecting information regarding names, addresses, designations, areas of posting, joining dates, birth districts, and so on about the field level officials.
EC Secretary Muhammed Sadique said the information was collected so that the right people could be posted in right places and thus they could play neutral roles during the elections.
Another official said if anything objectionable or dubious about any of its official was found, the EC would transfer that official.