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Poll Expenditure

BNP fails to submit papers within time

Shakhawat Liton
BNP is yet to submit the details and documents of Tk 4.49 crore of its election expenditure for the Election Commission's scrutiny with the one-month extended time for the submission expiring today.
Jatiya Party and Freedom Party also have not yet submitted their election expenditure reports while three other parties that earlier submitted reports in brief failed to come up with details of the spending, as they were asked, as of yesterday, officials at EC Secretariat said.
If the political parties eventually fail to submit their expenditure reports, the EC may extend the deadline for another 15 days with a fine of Tk 10,000. If the parties fail again, the commission can cancel their registrations.
The EC extended the deadline for one month and on April 8 asked all parties to submit their detailed poll expenditures on or before April 30. Parties had failed to comply with the electoral laws that required them to submit the statements by March 31.
Ilie main opposition in the ninth parliament, BNP, had submitted a one-page report that contained only a few major heads of its poll spending. The EC did not accept the report and asked the party to submit the details of expenditure.
When contacted yesterday BNP Joint Secretary General Nazrul Islam Khan expressed his ignorance about the entire matter.
"I know nothing about it. I am very busy with organising the party’s May 2 public rally. You better communicate with others at the party office," Nazrul, who played a key role in running up the December 29 parliamentary election, told The Daily Star.
BNP Office Secretary Rizvi Ahmed also said he knows nothing about it. "Nazrul Islam Khan knows well about this as he handled the party's election fund," he said.
Senior officials at the EC Secretariat said none of BNP leaders communicated with them to know the details of the procedure for submitting the election expenditure report.
However, leaders of a few other political parties communicated with the commission officials as it is the first time political parties are submitting their electoral expenditures to the EC for scrutiny, the EC Secretariat officials said.
They said Jatiya Party leaders came up with an election expenditure report on Tuesday but took it back when they were told the report was incomplete. The JP leaders said they would come back on Wednesday with a complete report. But they did not submit the report as of 5:00pm yesterday.
The Workers Party of Bangladesh, Muslim League and National People's Party earlier submitted brief expenditurereports.
The EC has decided to appoint chartered accountants to audit the election expenditures of political parties and candidates that contested in the December 29 parliamentary election and to post the documents submitted by the parties on its website.
Thirty-eight registered political parties contested the ninth parliamentary elections According to the Representation of the People Order, they were required to submit the expenditure reports by March 31.