The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Speakers at a press conference yesterday called upon the people to elect both honest and qualified candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

Sushashoner Janya Nagorik (Sujan) organised the conference at the DRU auditorium, in the capital. Badiul Alam Majumder, Secretary of Sujan, presented the keynote paper, while SMA Shajahan, former Adviser, delivered the welcome speech at the briefing.

They revealed suggestive information about the candidates competing for 141 seats in the upcoming polls. Badiul urged teh journalists to make investigative reporting basing on those revelations.

They said, according to the information of the National Board of Revenue, 35 per cent nomination papers submitted before the E.C. do not contain TIN number.

Thirty-six candidates, against whom allegation of corruption have been brought, are contesting the election. Charge sheets have also been submitted against some of them.

The speakers disclosed that 58 women candidates were contesting for 53 seats in the election.

Shajahan said the people of the country had a great expectation about the upcoming election. People have to carry out their responsibility with their right choice of vote, he added.