The search committee to form the next Election Commission will hold a meeting with eight senior journalists on Tuesday afternoon.
The meeting will be held at the Supreme Court's Judges Lounge at 4pm, according to search committee member and Public Service Commission chairman Sohrab Hossain.
Journalist leader Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Bangladesh Pratidin Editor Naeem Nizam, New Age Editor Nurul Kabir, Managing Director of Mashranga Television Anjan Chowdhury, Business Standard Editor Inam Ahmed Chowdhury,Dhaka Tribune Editor Zafar Sobhan, Channel I news chief Sheikh Siraj, and journalist leader Shawkat Mahmud are expected to attend the meeting.
On February 5, the government issued a gazette notification announcing a six-member search committee headed by Justice Obaidul Hassan, a judge of the Appellate Division, to form the next Election Commission (EC).
The other members of the search committee are High Court Division Judge S M Quddus Zaman, Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury, Chairman of Public Service Commission Sohorab Hossain, former election commissioner Mohammed Sohul Hossain and Professor of Bangla literature Anwara Syed Haq.
The committee had received over 300 names from 24 registered political parties and six organizations of professionals as of Friday. On Sunday, the committee extended the deadline for submission of names to 5pm on Monday and urged the BNP to post names as well.
It disclosed the names of a total 322 recommended candidates on Monday.
The BNP was among the parties that did not come to President Md Abdul Hamid’s talks on the formation of the EC and did not send names to the committee as well.
