EC invites BNP to dialogue over phone

The Election Commission has communicated with the opposition BNP over telephone, inviting it to sit in the EC's ongoing dialogue, the election commissioner, M Sakhawat Hossain, said Monday.

Talking to reporters at the EC secretariat, he informed that he had talked to the BNP acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, over telephone last week. 'There was a cordial conversation with the BNP leader.'

The Election Commissioner also said the BNP had shown positive attitude about joining the EC's dialogue.

As the EC fixed August 7 to sit in dialogue with the ruling Awami League, so the BNP can sit with the commission at any time before or after the date, Sakhawat said.

About submission of the audit report of the registered political parties, he said the Election Commission would serve show-cause notices to the political parties that defaulted on submitting annual audit reports Sunday, the deadline for submitting the report.

The EC in its next meeting will review the reports of the parties submitted

to the commission, he added.

Of the 38 registered political parties, the ruling Awami League, the Jatiya Party (Ershad) and 19 other parties have submitted their annual audit report to the Election Commission within the deadline that expired Sunday.

The BNP and 9 other parties have sought extensions for submission of their audit reports while 7 parties have neither submitted statements nor applied for time.

Source : New Age

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