The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

In an objection galore against delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, the Election Commission's complaint box is full with 3,000 objections on 51 out of the 64 redesigned seats. However, the EC is yet to set the principles on which they would ask the plaintiffs and conduct hearing on the objections. "No more objections will be taken after the working hours of the day and the hearing will be held from June 8 to 25," Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain told reporters Sunday. Of the objections, seven or eight are major, he said, while, according to the EC sources, about 3,000 objections have been filed against the draft delimitation.

"There are some objections which suggest delimiting such places where we haven't done it," Sakhawat said, adding that the EC is yet to decide how the process of hearing would be conducted. There are hundreds of objections on only one constituency regarding the same allegation or suggestion, the Election Commissioner said. The EC would sit on Monday and decide whether to call all the 500 plaintiffs or only a few for a similar type of objections, he said.