Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni told ‘Daily our Justice’ “Preparations have been made for the elected president to take the oath at Bangabhaban at 7pm on Aug 21. There are no difficulties with the preparations on our side.”
Special Correspondence : Bangladesh’s newly elected president is scheduled to be sworn into office on Friday evening at Bangabhaban following the country’s presidential election. The ceremony follows a direct electoral contest between BNP nominee Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Dr. Oli Ahmed of the 11-party alliance.
The presidential election will be held at the Parliament House from 2pm to 5pm on Thursday. BNP’s Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Oli Ahmed of the 11-party alliance are racing for the post.
On Wednesday, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni told ‘Daily our Justice‘ “Preparations have been made for the elected president to take the oath at Bangabhaban at 7pm on Aug 21. There are no difficulties with the preparations on our side.”
Voting will take place from 2pm to 5pm on Thursday.
“I will announce the results in the parliamentary chamber immediately after voting ends. The gazette notification of the election results will then be published.”
Regarding preparations for the election, he said: “We have provided all the information we were required to provide. Everything they have asked for so far is in place. There’s no problem.”
There are 349 voters in the election. Of them, 247 are from the BNP, 77 from Jamaat-e-Islami, while the remaining voters are lawmakers from other represented parties and independents.
Voting is set to take place in the parliamentary chamber for the first time in 35 years. CEC Nasir Uddin, who is serving as the election officer for the presidential election, has called the meeting for this purpose. The election is being conducted under the Presidential Election Act, 1991.
Twenty assistant officials from the Election Commission will assist the election officer in conducting the election, while a required number of officials from the Parliament Secretariat will also be deployed.
