'I do not think about voter turnout, my job is to organise polls'

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Sunday said he is not thinking about the voter turnout and his job is to arrange the elections.

“I know nothing whether the voter turnout is low or high. I don’t think about the voter turnout. My job is to arrange the elections,” said Awal while talking to journalists after casting his vote at Habibullah Bahar College polling centre in Dhaka, reports UNB.

He stressed the need for making the transparency visible in order to remove no-confidence among people regarding the voting, if any. He expressed his hope that peaceful voting will be held across the country.

“I would like to request you just to make the vote visible and raise its transparency as much as possible,” he said pointing at the journalists.

The CEC expected that if any, no-confidence among people about the voting would reduce gradually by making the vote visible and raising its transparency.

Awal, however, declined to predict about the voter turnout. 

About the vote casting, the CEC said that he is happy as the balloting started.