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Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haque MP said after a meeting with the US delegation that the delegation was told that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is committed to the people to conduct free, fair and peaceful elections and elections are free. Will be neutral and peaceful.\u00a0The US delegation held a meeting with Law Minister Anisul Haque at the Secretariat today.\u00a0Later, the Law Minister explained the contents of the meeting to the journalists and answered the questions of the journalists.<\/span> Staff correspondent : Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haque MP said after a meeting with the US delegation that the delegation was told that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is committed to the people to conduct free, fair and peaceful elections and elections are free. Will be neutral and peaceful.\u00a0The US delegation held a meeting with Law Minister Anisul Haque at the Secretariat today.\u00a0Later, the Law Minister explained the contents of the meeting to the journalists and answered the questions of the journalists. The Law Minister told reporters,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3486,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Law Minister told reporters, ‘They (US delegation) have asked whether there is any such apprehension, who will come in the election, who will not come.\u00a0I have said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government wants all parties to come to the polls.\u00a0But who will come to the election, who will not come – that is the party’s decision.’<\/span>
\nIn response to a question, the law minister said that there was no discussion about the caretaker government in the meeting with him.\u00a0They (the delegation) did not even ask about dialogue.\u00a0He said that instead of Digital Security Act, Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Act was discussed with him.\u00a0Free, impartial and peaceful elections were discussed.\u00a0In order to maintain the independence of the Election Commission, various steps of the government have been highlighted, including making the law to appoint the Chief Election Commissioner and the Election Commissioner.\u00a0He said, I told them that there is no law anywhere in this subcontinent to appoint a commission.\u00a0We didn’t even have it here.\u00a0Necessary laws have been amended to make elections free and fair.\u00a0After the announcement of the schedule, all the departments and institutions concerned with election related work are run under the Election Commission.<\/span>
\nAnisul Haque said, the delegation’s statement was where is the difference between the Digital Security Act and the Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Act?\u00a0The difference is very clearly stated.<\/span>
\nThe delegation asked about our judiciary.\u00a0The entire history of our Judiciary is outlined.\u00a0The law minister said that the US pre-election delegation did not give any suggestion.\u00a0They wanted to hear.<\/span>
\nThe pre-election delegation of the United States visiting Dhaka asked the Law Minister Anisul Haque whether there is any fear about who will come and who will not come in the upcoming national elections.\u00a0In response, the law minister said that the current government wants all parties to come to the polls.\u00a0But who will come to the election, who will not come – that is the party’s decision.<\/span>
\nThe US delegation consisting of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) came to Dhaka last Saturday to evaluate the issue of sending an observer mission to the upcoming parliamentary elections.\u00a0They are meeting continuously with various parties focused on elections.\u00a0Following this, the delegation of 9 members held a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at the Secretariat today.\u00a0Later he came to the Law Ministry and held a meeting with Law Minister Anisul Haque.\u00a0However, the delegation did not say anything in detail about the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"