Bangladesh’s new election commission sworn in

Bangladesh’s newly-appointed Chief Election Commissioner and four Election Commissioners (ECs) took oath at the Supreme Court in Dhaka on Sunday. Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oath.  

Earlier on November 21, President Mohammed Shahabuddin appointed former secretary AMM Nasir Uddin as the new CEC and four others as election commissioners under section 118 (1) of the constitution. The Cabinet Division issued separate gazette notifications to this end on that day. The new EC has been constituted on the basis of the recommendation of the six-member search committee.