{"id":30714,"date":"2017-02-15T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2017-02-15T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T23:08:31","slug":"new-cec-commissioners-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=30714","title":{"rendered":"New CEC, commissioners take over"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"new-ec-on-oath\"Dhaka desk: The newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and four other election commissioners took over charge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

CEC KM Nurul Huda and four other election commissioners — Mahbub Talukder, Md Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam and Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury — took over their charge around 4:25 pm.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Chief Justice SK Sinha administered the oath of the newly appointed CEC and four other election commissioners at the Supreme Court Judges' Lounge at 3pm.<\/p>\n

On February 6 last, President Abdul Hamid reconstituted the five-member Election Commission (EC) making former secretary KM Nurul Huda the CEC.<\/p>\n

The five-year tenure of CEC Kazi Rakibuddin and three election commissioners expired on February 8 last while that of another election commissioner on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The four election commissioners are former additional secretary Mahbub Talukder, former secretary Md Rafiqul Islam, former district and sessions judge Kabita Khanam and Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury.<\/p>\n

The new Election Commission will conduct the next general election scheduled for January, 2019.<\/p>\n

The CEC and his four deputies are now going to the EC Bhaban in the city\u2019s Agargaon area to formally join office.<\/p>\n

Later, they will hold a press conference at 5pm there.unb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka desk: The newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and four other election commissioners took over charge on Wednesday. CEC KM Nurul Huda and four other election commissioners — Mahbub Talukder, Md Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam and Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury — took over their charge around 4:25 pm. Earlier, Chief Justice SK […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n