Prof Yunus for making people election-centric with adequate awareness
Staff Correspondent
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday said the people of the country need to be made election-centric as they must be made aware that no one can snatch the ballot box.
“We must bring discipline, and we, taking the people together, must hold safe elections,” said Prof Yunus who will open the second round of talks with political parties on reform work in the first week of June.
The first round of talks with political parties by the Consensus Commission ended on May 19.
The decision to hold the second round of talks was made at a meeting of the National Consensus Commission held at the State Guest House Jamuna.
Prof Yunus, head of the Commission, chaired the meeting where its members informed the Chief Adviser about the latest progress in the talks with political parties.
The Chief Adviser suggested increasing public awareness by involving civil society and grassroots organisations in the reform process and elections, along with political parties.
“Bangladesh that we got after such a big uprising should not remain the same Bangladesh,” Prof Yunus said.
The meeting discussed the formation of an independent commission to investigate the role of those involved in irregularities in various elections in the past.
Commission Vice-Chairman Professor Ali Riaz said every political party has already expressed their views on this issue.
Commission member Ayub Bhuiyan called for the immediate formation of the Public Administration Reform Implementation Commission.
Judicial Reform Commission representative Emdadul Haque called on the Chief Adviser to ensure that the commission formed to appoint Supreme Court judges based on the consensus of political parties can work transparently.
Anti-Corruption Reform Commission representative Dr Iftekharuzzaman called for the formulation of a roadmap to implement the recommendations of the reform commissions formed on media, labor, local government, women and health issues outside the six initially formed commissions.
