The New Nation - Internet Edition

Chitagong Correspondent

The Election Commission (EC) is learnt to have taken adequate precautions for keeping the Rohinga intruders and Pakistani refugees out of the under process voter roll.

The intruders, refugees and expatriates earlier became voters out of political influences during the regimes of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Awami League would also be dropped from the list

According to sources at Election Commission here in Chitagong, more than 50 thousand Myanmar-intruders and Pakistani-refugees have become voters over the previous decade of political ruling.

Of the illegal voters, 19 thousands are Myanmar-intruders and the others are Pakistani-refugee. The then political governments included them in the voter list illegally for their ulterior motive. The port city alone hosts about 200 thousand Myanmar-intruders and another 300 thousand Pakistani-refugee. Second generation of the outsiders are willing to be naturalized while some of them like geting back to their homeland.

The EC sources said that the second generation of the refugees who born on this soil after 1971 had acquired the right to become voters.

Voter registration at Halishahar, Tigerpass, Agrabad and Hamjarbag - the concentrations of refugees and intruders - will require special measure for authentic identification of the naturalized population.

Mohammad Dulal Talukder District Election Commissioner in Chitagong told this correspondent that EC was pledge bound to make a flawless voter roll.