Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told parliament that the government had no scope to give directives for holding the next general elections.
Replying to a question, she assured that her government would provide necessary number of law enforcers to maintain law and order at polling stations as suggested by the Election Commission. “The Election Commission Secretariat is the responsible body to hold local polls such as city corporation elections and the national elections. There is no scope for the government to give directives for holding such polls in a free and unbiased way,” she said in reply to a question from Awami League MP Golam Dastagir Gazi.
Hasina said the government had extended all-out support to the Election Commission to hold the local and national polls. “The government is pledge-bound to provide such supports in future.”
She said her government had already allocated adequate funds for holding all previous polls, guaranteeing its economic autonomy and 5,778 polls had taken place during the tenure of the present government.
Hasina said the voters’ roll for the upcoming polls had been updated and additional 40,000 transparent ballot boxes, adequate quantity of indelible ink and electoral articles had been readied.
