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The National Citizen Party (NCP), an offshoot of Students against Discrimination (SAD) that led last year's uprising which toppled Sheikh Hasina's government, has been officially registered arsenic a governmental enactment successful Bangladesh up of the February wide election.
The Election Commission (EC) has allotted the NCP the electoral awesome 'Shapla Koli' (water lily bud), according to a gazette notification issued connected Monday (November 17), the aforesaid time Hasina was handed the decease condemnation successful absentia by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for "crimes against humanity" implicit her government's crackdown connected student-led protests.
The EC "has registered NCP arsenic a governmental enactment until further orders", the State-run BSS news bureau reported connected Tuesday, citing the notification.
The NCP had earlier sought 'Shapla' (water lily) arsenic its symbol; however, the petition was rejected due to the fact that it is not among the 115 electoral symbols approved nether existing regulations.
The “Shapla” is besides the nationalist emblem of Bangladesh.
Following the rejection successful September, the NCP warned of protests and accused the authorities of denying it a just choice. However, earlier this month, the enactment backtracked from its erstwhile stance and accepted 'Shapla Koli' arsenic its authoritative electoral symbol.
The NCP had said it plans to tract candidates successful each 300 constituencies successful the upcoming parliamentary election.
The party's registration comes arsenic Bangladesh heads for a tense predetermination play marked by governmental uncertainty and increasing nationalist attraction connected caller and emerging players.
At a property briefing successful Dhaka connected Tuesday, Senior Secretary of the EC Secretariat Akhtar Ahmed said the committee had started moving connected the registration of 143 governmental parties.
In the archetypal signifier of review, helium said, it rejected the applications of 121 parties. The EC connected Tuesday published the last elector database up of the parliamentary polls. The full fig of registered voters stands astatine 127,695,183. Among them, 64,814,907 are antheral voters, 62,879,042 females, and 1,234 transgenders.
