EC to ensure level playing field in KCC polls: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Tuesday said that the Election Commission wants to hold a free and fair election at a level playing field in the Khulna City Corporation election through a coordinated effort from all.

“The candidates either mayor nor councilor will have to face music if anybody violates ‘code of conduct’,” he said this while speaking at a views exchange with candidates for mayoral, general ward and women reserve seats at local Shilpakala Academy.

“Voters will come to the polling centers easily and cast their votes for their choice full-candidates. If we get complaints that the voters are being blocked to enter into the centre, being failed to cast vote, and there are miscreants in the centre who resisted them, strict action will be taken against them, the CEC said adding that if any candidate break the code of conduct, he or she will not be spared.

Election Commissioner Brigadier General (Rtd) Md Ahsan Habib Khan and Secretary to the Election Commission Secretariat Md Jahangir Alam attended the meeting as special guests.