{"id":19479,"date":"2025-12-07T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=19479"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:31:56","slug":"ec-fully-prepared-to-hold-national-polls-referendum-in-feb-cec-tells-chief-adviser-professor-muhammad-yunus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=19479","title":{"rendered":"EC fully prepared to hold national polls, referendum in Feb, CEC tells Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin today informed Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus that the Election Commission (EC) was fully prepared to hold the national polls and the referendum on the same day in the first half of February next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll preparations for holding the election are progressing smoothly and effectively and the Commission is fully prepared to hold the national election and the referendum on the same day in the first half of February,\u201d the CEC said while briefing the Chief Adviser on the preparations for the upcoming national election and the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC and other Election Commissioners met Prof Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here this evening and apprised him of the progress.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, the CEC and other Election Commissioners thanked the Chief Adviser for extending full cooperation to the Election Commission during the preparatory phase.<\/p>\n<p>Nasir Uddin also conveyed his gratitude, through the Chief Adviser, to members of the law enforcement agencies and the armed forces for their support in election preparations.<\/p>\n<p>He said that citizens have already engaged them in election-related activities, creating a nationwide electoral atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing satisfaction with the EC\u2019s preparations, the Chief Adviser said the government will continue to provide all kinds of support to the Election Commission to hold a fair and impartial election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this long-awaited election, you (the EC) are in the driver\u2019s seat. We must reach the desired destination,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming the government\u2019s commitment, Prof Yunus said the interim government is determined to present the nation with a beautiful election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are moving forward with the conviction that within the first half of February we will gift the nation the best election in its history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Election Commissioners Abdur Rahmanel Masud, Tahmida Ahmad, Md Anwarul Islam Sarker and Brig Gen (retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah, Senior Secretary of the EC Secretariat Akhtar Ahmed were present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, National Security Adviser Dr Khalilur Rahman and Chief Adviser&#8217;s Principal Secretary M Siraz Uddin Miah were present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Bss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin today informed Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus that the Election Commission (EC) was fully prepared to hold the national polls and the referendum on the same day in the first half of February next year. \u201cAll preparations for holding the election are progressing smoothly and effectively and the Commission is fully prepared to hold the national election and the referendum on the same day in the first half of February,\u201d the CEC said while briefing the Chief Adviser on the preparations for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19480,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions\/19480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}