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Monday, November 5, 2007

[chottala.com] When the chief election commissioner hides like a thief [Shada Kalo Blog]

November 05, 2007

When the chief election commissioner hides like a thief

BNP stooge CEC Aziz claimed he was sick and hid out at a hospital when an EU team came to visit and wanted to talk to him. He became the subject of ridicule, but protecting his masters and not the so-called "independent" election commission was his priority.

We see that the current election commission has invited the Saifur-Hafiz faction of BNP to formal dialogs on the same day the CEC claimed the decision was yet to come.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda on Sunday [Nov 4] told reporters that no decision was taken regarding which faction of BNP would be invited to the talks. "A decision will be taken in a day or two," CEC Huda said adding, "I will collect more information since I need to know more about the matter."

Asked how the commission would take a decision in absence of the two election commissioners, Muhammed Sohul Hussain and M Sakhawat Hussain, who were scheduled to leave Dhaka for the UK the very next day, the CEC said the two commissioners had already given their opinions on the issue.

But, the EC secretary at the news briefing yesterday [again, Nov 4] claimed that the commission took the decision at Sunday's [Nov 4] meeting. "The commission unanimously took the decision," the secretary claimed.

Election commissioners -- Sohul and Sakhawat --- left Dhaka yesterday [again, Nov 4] morning for the UK on a two-week tour to study the feasibility of registering as voters the Bangladeshi citizens living in the UK.
[All Nov 4 dates inserted above after a reader comment to clear up any confusion]. Did the two commissioners attend the meeting and then leave? Why on the same day the EC is saying the decision will take a few more days, and the EC secretary announces the decision right after that, claiming it was reached that day? So who is lying, the CEC or the EC secretary? Because both can not be right given the conflicting statements. And in a scene reminiscent of Aziz's fake illness, the CEC stranded journalists after promising to talk to them.
The CEC yesterday went to his office and talked to senior EC officials. When a group of journalists sought his appointment through his personal secretary, the CEC asked them through the personal secretary to come at a later hour.

When the journalists returned for a meeting with the CEC in late afternoon, his personal secretary asked them to wait in the conference room for a briefing. As the journalists were waiting there expecting to meet the CEC, the EC secretary walked in to brief them, informing them that the CEC had already left the building.
Given the CTG-engineered coup of BNP, it is no surprise that the Saifur-faction was invited. But it seems like the EC is not even trying to put a veneer of half-truths on their actions; they are going with outright lies and sneaking out of back doors at this point.

CEC Aziz must be so happy that his proud tradition is still continuing.

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