{"id":12938,"date":"2025-10-26T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12938"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:21:15","slug":"no-situation-yet-to-be-worried-about-polls-akhtar-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12938","title":{"rendered":"No situation yet to be worried about polls-Akhtar Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: Election Commission (EC) Secretariat Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed today said there is no situation so far to be panicked or concerned regarding the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, there is no reason for panic or concern,\u201d he told journalists at Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital\u2019s Agargaon.<\/p>\n<p>About the preparations, Akhtar Ahmed said \u201cIt is not necessary that everything must be completed exactly as per the EC\u2019s initial plan. Certain adjustments are made depending on the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome tasks have already been completed, while others are still in progress and will take a bit more time. Not every activity can be scheduled or executed strictly according to fixed dates and times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the list of polling centres has been finalized. The registration of political parties and the final list of polling centres will be completed within this week, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding new party registration, he said, \u201cWe are receiving information from the field about party registrations, which are currently being reviewed. Hopefully, we will complete the process within this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About BNP\u2019s objection letter regarding the amendment to the Representation of the People Order (RPO), Akhtar Ahmed said, \u201cBNP has sent a letter expressing its objection over the RPO issue. The Commission will take a decision on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: Election Commission (EC) Secretariat Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed today said there is no situation so far to be panicked or concerned regarding the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election. \u201cSo far, there is no reason for panic or concern,\u201d he told journalists at Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital\u2019s Agargaon. About the preparations, Akhtar Ahmed said \u201cIt is not necessary that everything must be completed exactly as per the EC\u2019s initial plan. Certain adjustments are made depending on the situation.\u201d \u201cSome tasks have already been completed, while others are still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-lead-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12940,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions\/12940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}