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Islam Sarkar, said the EC is fully prepared and sees no complication regarding Tarique’s future eligibility to contest elections once he becomes a voter.

He added that security considerations for both Tarique and the EC building will determine whether the registration is conducted at his Gulshan residence or at the EC office, a decision yet to be finalised.

The EC prepared the photo-based voter list in 2008, but Tarique Rahman and his wife, Zubaida Rahman, were not enrolled at the time, as they had been living in London after leaving Bangladesh on September 11 that year.

Zubaida Rahman returned to Dhaka with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on May 6 this year, registered as a voter, and returned to London on June 5.

Tarique Rahman returned to the country on Thursday with his wife and daughter after 6,314 days abroad.

He was not included in subsequent voter lists prepared for the 2014, 2018 and 2024 national elections.