Bangladesh Polls: EC’s views-exchange on law-and-order continues

The Election Commission has sat in a views-exchange with different law enforcement agencies and intelligences in a bid to conduct the 13th parliamentary election in free, participatory and fair manners.

The meeting titled ‘views-exchange and pre-preparation meeting’ about the law and order began at 10:40 am at the Conference Room of Nirbachan Bhaban with Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin in the chair.

Top representatives from the armed forces – Army, Navy and Air Force--police, BGB, Rab, Coast Guard, Ansar and intelligence agencies are there in the discussion.

Four election commissioners Abdur Rahmanel Masud, Tahmida Ahmad, Md Anwarul Islam Sarker and Brig Gen (Retd) Abdul Fazal Md Sanaullah are also present.

According to the EC, representatives of the chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the senior secretary of the Public Security Division under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD), the Inspector General of Police, and the director generals of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Coast Guard, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar-VDP), Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) and additional IGPs of Special Branch (SB) and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) joined the meeting.

The attendees include Senior Secretary of the Public Security Division Nasimul Ghani, PSO Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division Lieutenant General S M Kamrul Hassan, Army representative Lieutenant General Mizanur Rahman Shameem, Navy representative Rear Admiral Mir Ershad Ali, Air Force representative Air Vice Marshal Rushad Din Asad, Inspector General of Police Baharul Alam, NSI Director General Maj Gen Abu Mohammad Sarwar Farid, DGFI Director General Major General Mohammad Jahangir Alam, BGB Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, Ansar and VDP Director General Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud, Coast Guard Director General Rear Admiral Md Ziaul Haque, NTMC Director General Major General Abdul Qayyum Molla, Rab Director General AKM Shahidur Rahman, Additional IGP (Admin & Finance) of SB GM Azizur Rahman and Additional IGP of CID Md Sibgat Ullah.

Earlier, the Commission opened a series of electoral dialogues with different stakeholders amid talks with civil society representatives on September 28 last ahead of the next general election planned to be held in early February 2026.

Then the EC sat in another discussion with the representatives of teachers on the same day.

On October 06, the Commission held two separate dialogues with senior journalists from different media outlets.

During the dialogues, journalists urged the Election Commission to demonstrate firmness and a strong commitment to ensuring a level-playing field and effectively fight abuse of AI and social media for holding the 13th parliamentary election in a fair and festive manner.

The EC has planned to sit with other stakeholders, including political parties ahead of the national election.