report in Prothom Alo, Apr 4, 2023BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their party is least bothered about the election commission’s decisions to use ballot papers in all 300 seats instead of EVMs in the upcoming polls as their main concern is about the election-time government. Speaking at an iftar party, he also alleged that a suffocating situation has been prevailing in the country as the government has been increasingly trying…
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By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 20, 2023The Police Department has stated that it will have to consider providing security to the Government Printing Department only when the ballot paper printing process commences, and that officers would have to be reassigned from various police stations and duties as they would have to be deployed at the Printing Department for a longer period than usual. Responding to Government Printer Gangani Liyanage’s statement last week that…
by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 17, 2023Government Printer Gangani Liyanage stated yesterday (16) that the “main reason” for the delay in the printing of the ballot papers for the postal voting at the Local Government (LG) poll is that despite many requests made to the Police Department, including to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana D. Wickramaratne by both the Election Commission (EC) and the Government Printing Department to provide security for…