{"id":858,"date":"2020-12-20T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/?p=858"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:43:03","slug":"n-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/n-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption allegation against EC baseless: Election Commissioner Shahadat Hossain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online Desk\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has said the allegations of corruption and other misconducts brought against the Election Commission by 42 distinguished citizens are &#8220;baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is any ground for the allegations\u2026 As a member of a constitutional institution, I don&#8217;t want to consider these as a challenge,&#8221; the election commissioner said while talking to journalists at his office today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a letter to President Md Abdul Hamid on December 14, the distinguished citizens said Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) should be constituted under article 96 of the constitution to probe the &#8220;graft&#8221; and &#8220;other misdeeds&#8221; of EC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Now, the president will decide what to do (over the issue),&#8221; Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-adv-in-body pull-left pad-left-right-big gero-left pad-bottom-small\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-news_details_after_2nd_paragraph-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-news_details_after_2nd_paragraph\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\" data-google-query-id=\"CKGJ-fW63O0CFcdMKwodFVAFaA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/34728570\/News_Details_After_2nd_Paragraph_ad_0__container__\">They brought the allegations against the EC and in a sense, they delivered the judgement, the election commissioner said, adding, &#8220;Now, you (people) will see whether it is against the protocol.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;May be, the allegations are ill-motivated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current Election Commission has done its best to hold neutral and fair elections, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Desk\u00a0 Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has said the allegations of corruption and other misconducts brought against the Election Commission by 42 distinguished citizens are &#8220;baseless.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is any ground for the allegations\u2026 As a member of a constitutional institution, I don&#8217;t want to consider these as a challenge,&#8221; the election commissioner said while talking to journalists at his office today. In a letter to President Md Abdul Hamid on December 14, the distinguished citizens said Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) should be constituted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}