No scope now for law on EC formation: Anisul Huq

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said that there is no scope right now for the enactment of a law on the formation of the Election Commission.

“I said there will be a law, but that has to acceptable to all and not only to one party” he told the reporters at his office in the Secretariat.

He urged BNP to change its decision and take part in the dialogue with the president for the sake of the country.

Pointing to BNP he said, “If they think it is a toxic situation, then I think they have to take some steps to get out of the toxic situation. If we join the dialogue, we think it will be positive.”

The Minister said, “In fact, the challenge we always have is that we believe in public service. Our job is to improve the quality of service and deliver the service to the people and we take it as a challenge to do that,”

The minister said all the programs are people friendly. “We will try to make these people-friendly programs available to the people through public service.”

“Who will be sent abroad, who will not be sent abroad, that is not the priority,” he said. “Priority is that the time has come for Sheikh Hasina to prepare the ground for the services that the people should have received long ago. We will deliver.”

He said the people will deliver their verdict in the next elections on who has for their welfare and who has served only themselves.