Staff Reporter
The enactment of a law to free the Election Commission from the Government control is being delayed due to bureaucratic tangle.
Disclosing this yesterday, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said many of the political parties do not practise democracy although claimed themselves as the champions of the pluralist system.
“Many of the political parties, including BNP, which lack practise of democracy within the organisation, cannot register with the Election Commission unless they amend their existing party constitutions,” he told journalists after a dialogue with the Workers’ Party on electoral reform at the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat. [Read more]