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CEC shocked at Jamaat flip-flop on reform talks

Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday criticised Jamaat-e-lslami and Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) for their "about-face” on electoral reforms.
Referring to Saturday's talks with the parties, he said their attitude frustrates him.
"They now reject all reforms including the ones they accepted before. We don’t understand their u-turn," he told reporters at the EC Secretariat.
In the first two rounds of talks, both Jamaat and IOJ agreed to get registered, but in the final round they did a complete about face, Huda continued.
"1 was just taken aback, and said to myself, 'Oh God, what are we hearing fromhujurs [Islamic scholars) in the month of Ramadan!'"
Rather, he added, it was BNP whose approach was more positive. "Discussions with the party's delegation gave me a ray of hope amid frustrations. They seemed eager to contest the elections and it makes us optimistic."
The CEC said 13 out of the 16 parties that attended the third round electoral talks said they would get registered with the EC after a little revision of the registration procedure. Those included parties like AL and IP
"It's only BNP, Jamaat and IOJ, who want all new provisions to be scrapped or suspended till the upcoming polls.”
Meanwhile, in a press release yesterday Jamaat strongly protested theCEC’scomment.
"His comment has upset us. It's not only unbecoming to his post, but also indecent," Jamaat acting secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman said in the release.
"We hope he will realise that he shouldn't have made the comment," headded.
"In the first two rounds of talks, we said since mandatory registration is new to the political parties, the Election Commission should employ an easy procedure to ensure all parties get registered. But they took no heed." the release read. “Then in the third-round dialogue we said it's not possible for any political party to meet the stringent registration criteria at such short notice. So registration should not be compulsory for the parties to contest the upcoming election."
On September 20, the Election Commission sat with BNP, Jamaat, and IOJ separately and rounded off its electoral talks with the political parties.
Initially, the three parties decided not to join the final round of talks. But they changed the decision after things started to change for the better with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's release on bail on September 11.