The decision was taken at a meeting at the police headquarters on law and order ahead of the second phase of the staggered UP polls scheduled for May, to make the elections credible and neutral.
Addressing a post-meeting briefing, home minister Sahara Kahtun told reporters that she had ordered the law enforcement agencies to launch the anti-crime drives for holding the UP polls peacefully.
'In line with the instructions of the Election Commission, law enforcers would take steps so that nobody can influence the elections,' she said.
She said that all the elections held so far under the Awami League-led alliance government were free and fair.
'We have successfully held the union parishad elections in some parts of the country last month. Police played a creditable role during the elections,' the home minister said adding that everyone should stay alert against any conspiracy by any quarters to disrupt law and order in the coming days.
Inspector general of police Hasan Mahmud Khandaker said lawmen would conduct special drives next month by updating the existing lists of crime suspects.
He said that he had instructed police officials across the country to ensure that law and order was maintained.
On April 19, the Election Commission announced a 36-day timeline for holding polls to 3,813 union parishads in 414 upazilas across the country starting from May 31.
The number of union parishads is 4,550. Polls to 553 were held in the first phase in between March 29 and April 3 this year amid stray incidents of violence.
High officials of police were present in the meeting.
Source: New Age
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