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Results of .35 seats withheld, repolling in many centres

EC to investigate into cases of 'unusually large' turnout

By Staff Correspondent
The Election Commission ’ (EC) yesterday withheld the poll results of35 parliamen tary seats and announced that re-election would be held in "different centres' in 84 constituencies due to "various irregularities’ during the election;
The Commission will also conduct investigation into "all cases where unusually large number of votes" were cast.
sources in the EC said.
Chief Election Commis sioner Justice AKM Sadeq. talking to The Daily Star yesterday said. "We will investigate every case including those 35 (seats) where an incredible number of votes were cast?
A top official of the Commission. however, said cases where more than 40 per cent votes were cast would be in-
vestigated.
The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) said that the decision to withhold the results of 35 seats was taken following complaints of rigging and other irregularities.
The CEC said that his office was receiving various complaints of irregularities from different parts of the country The EC was also taking notes of the reports pub-
lished in the newspapers as clues and would take action accordingly, the CEC said.
The CEC also said that he was going to propose new electoral laws in future. "We have a Pre-poll Irregularities Committee but we do not have one which deals with the post-poll irregularity, this should be amended," Justice Sadeq said.
The EC. until yesterday, announced unofficial results of 119 constituencies. Announcement of poll results was suspended at 6 pm yesterday in view of the holy Shab-e-Qadr.
The results of 12 parliamentary seats are yet to be received by the EC. the sources said
Polling was held in 250 seats in the 6th parliamentary election held Thursday, amid an Opposition boycott and widespread violence across the country.
The ruling BNP won in 118 seats and lost one to an independent candidate, according to the EC's unofficial results.
Voting was suspended in two constituencies — one for the death of a candidate and the other for. litigations! problems.