& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Parties get more time to place charter to EC

Failure leads to cancellation of registration; RPO amendment bill passed

Staff Correspondent
Parliament yesterday passed the Representation of the People Order (RPO) amendment bill extending the deadline for another six months for political parties to submit their ratified constitutions to the Election CqiRmission to retain registration.
The RPO was amended to give additional time to the main opposition BNP and five other political parties to submit their ratified constitutions to the EC as they failed to meet the earlier deadline of July 24 this year.
They will now get time till January 24 next year to submit their ratified charters to the EC. If any political party fails to do so this time, its registration with the EC will be cancelled, according to a provision of the bill.
BNP however has opposed the provision for cancelling registration. BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a member of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry, placed a note of dissent on the provision during the bill's scrutiny by the committee.
In his note, the BNP lawmaker said any attempt to cancel BNP's registration with the EC will lead to political unrest and hamper constitutional continuity.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed piloted the bill proposing its passage. The House passed it unanimously with the opposition lawmakers abstaining.
Another provision of the bill specified the timeframe for cancellation of registration of a political party for failing to submit information required by the EC.
It said registration of a political party will be cancelled if it fails to submit required information to the EC for three consecutive years.
According to the existing provisions of the RPO, political parties were supposed to ratify the provisional changes in their constitutions by holding councils and submit the -ratified chartersJ^Tthe- EC by July 24 this year.
Many political parties including Awami League, Jatiya Party, and Jamaat-e-Islami have complied with the provisions.
But BNP and a few other parties failed to meet the provisions of ratifying the provisional changes within six months since the first sitting of the ninth parliament that began on January 25.
BNP applied to the EC for extending the timeframe by another sixmonths.
All 39 registered political parties except one brought provisional changes to their constitutions before the December 29 parliamentary election to meet the registrationcriteria.
They promised to ratify the changes within six months from the first sitting of the ninth parliament.