{"id":13920,"date":"2026-09-17T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=13920"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:08:13","slug":"ec-to-hold-preparatory-meeting-on-local-govt-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=13920","title":{"rendered":"EC to hold preparatory meeting on local govt elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk<\/strong>: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a preparatory meeting with representatives of various ministries, divisions and authorities today to discuss the upcoming local government elections and the by-election to the vacant Thakurgaon-1 constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin will chair the meeting, scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm at the Election Commission Secretariat in Agargaon. Election commissioners will also attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to a letter signed by EC Deputy Secretary Mohammad Monir Hossain, the meeting has been convened to make preparations for elections to local government institutions and the by-election to the vacant Thakurgaon-1 constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, EC Secretariat Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said the schedule for the local government elections would be finalised at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a preparatory meeting with representatives of various ministries, divisions and authorities today to discuss the upcoming local government elections and the by-election to the vacant Thakurgaon-1 constituency. Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin will chair the meeting, scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm at the Election Commission Secretariat in Agargaon. Election commissioners will also attend the meeting. According to a letter signed by EC Deputy Secretary Mohammad Monir Hossain, the meeting has been convened to make preparations for elections to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13921,"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-13920","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\/13920","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=13920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}