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Chief Election Commissioner(CEC) KM Nurul Huda has set Dec 23 as the election day for the 11th parliamentary election in his address to the nation.<\/p>\nChief Election Commissioner(CEC) KM Nurul Huda has set Dec 23 as the election day for the 11th parliamentary election in his address to the nation.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, the CEC sat with his colleagues to finalise the voting day at a meeting.<\/p>\n
The meeting started at the Election Commission in Agargaon at 11am.<\/p>\n
The election commission in the meeting, set the voting date and finalised the cut-off time for the submission and withdrawal of nomination papers and a detailed schedule for the polling day.<\/p>\n
He says it is a constitutional binding to hold the election by Jan 28, as the countdown to the polls began.<\/p>\n
While addressing the nation at 7pm, the CEC urged all the political parties to participate in the national election to keep the trend of democracy and pace of development uninterrupted.<\/p>\n
He also expected a competitive election with the participation of all political parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in a competitive election irregularities can be checked with the active participation of the supporters of candidates,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
CEC Huda\u2019s speech came amid the new opposition alliance Jatiya Oikyafront\u2019s repeated calls for the commission to defer the election schedule.<\/p>\n