Sadrul Ain:
The Election Commission (EC) has released the final list of the country's total voters, including those added to the list in 2024. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said that the current total number of voters in the country is 123.732 million.
The CEC made this information at the inaugural ceremony of National Voters' Day in front of the Election Building in Agargaon on Sunday (March 2).
This year's theme is 'Yours and My Bangladesh, Let's Vote Together'. The EC has organized a discussion meeting on the occasion of Voters' Day. In addition, the field-level offices will hold various programs.
In this regard, National Identity Registration Division Director General ASM Humayun Kabir said on Saturday that according to existing rules, National Voters Day is celebrated on March 2 every year.
According to that rule, the final voter list will be published on Voters' Day today. Earlier, the draft voter list was published on January 2.
The EC said on Saturday that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin inaugurated the National Voters' Day activities in front of the Election Building in Agargaon at 9:15 am on Sunday.
Apart from the CEC, all the officials and employees, including the four other election commissioners and the senior secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat, were present at the inauguration ceremony.
After the inauguration ceremony, a procession will take out at 9:30 am. After that, a discussion meeting will be held in the basement of the Election Building at 11 am. At the ceremony, smart cards were handed over to several voters injured in the July mass uprising.
On January 2, the EC published the draft updated voter list. 18 lakh 33 thousand 352 people were included in the list. Accordingly, the number of voters in the country is 12 crore 36 lakh 83 thousand 512. Of these, 6 crore 33 lakh 30 thousand 103 are male, 6 crore 3 lakh 52 thousand 415 are female and 994 are transgender voters.
EC officials said they believe the number of new voters will increase by more than two million after the completion of the demands and objections to the draft list.
EC officials also said that they are also moving ahead with the work of updating this year's voter list, which has been collecting information from door to door since January 20. In this process, information on a total of 5.1 million citizens has been collected.
Those born on or before January 1, 2008 but not yet registered as voters are being added to this list. At the same time, the names of those who have died are being excluded.
The updated voter list is scheduled to be completed by June. The EC is pushing forward this work with a view to holding the elections in December.
