Dhaka desk: The newly formed six-member search committee on Saturday requested 31 political parties, who were attended dialogue with the president, to propose five names of Election Commission head and members to the additional secretary of the Cabinet division by January 31.
In its first meeting, the search committee also decided to sit with 12 eminent personalities of the country’s civil society at the Supreme Court Judges' Lounge in Dhaka on Monday at 4:00pm in order to take their opinions over the issue.
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam disclosed their names at a briefing in front of the Supreme Court after the first meeting of the search committee.
The eminent personalities are – former High Court judge Md Abdur Rashid, Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury, Serajul Islam Choudhury, SMA Fayez, Sultana Kamal, former Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda, former Election Commissioner Sohul Hussain, former Election Commissioner Sakhawat Hussain, local government expert Tofail Ahmed, secretary of Shushanor Jonno Nagorik Badiul Alam Majumdar, Dhaka University professor Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq and former bureaucrat Nurul Huda.
