HTML clipboardThe election roadmap won''t be disturbed even if local-body elections are delayed by one or two months since holding the national elections is the Election Commission''s main target, Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda observed Wednesday, reports UNB.

"No, that won''t be. We didn''t mention any specific date or months in the roadmap for holding the local-body elections. Our main target is holding the national elections.

We''ve taken the local elections as an additional task," he told journalists as asked if the delay in announcing the schedule of local elections would hamper the EC-announced election roadmap.

"It won''t matter if it is delayed for one or two months, because our main target is to hold the national elections," he further said speaking to the journalists while leaving office in the afternoon.

Asked about declaring the schedules for the city corporation and municipality elections at the end of March, as decided by the EC, CEC Huda said the EC didn''t yet get the new laws governing the local bodies.

"I can''t announce the election schedule until I get the laws in hand… When the gazette notification of the laws would come in my hand, then I would think of announcing the schedule," he said.

CEC Huda said that, as far he knows, the ministry concerned wants to conduct the local elections under the new law and lots of changes are to come in the new law. "So, I can''t tell anything until the ordinance is promulgated."

Asked when the law might be enacted, the CEC said he does not know, as it is not a matter of the EC. The local-body elections and relevant laws are totally an affair of LGRD Ministry, he said.

"No, the election of Dhaka City Corporation will be held separately as it is a big matter," CEC Huda said when asked in case of delay in holding Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet City Corporation elections, if the DCC election would also be held simultaneously with the four. About the progress of voter listing, he said the programme is going smoothly and registration of five crore voters would complete by March 26.

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