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The Election Commission (EC) of Bangladesh has demanded other information for its chief, different commissioners and officials arsenic caller unrest visibly gripped Bangladesh aft gunmen changeable an upcoming parliamentary polls campaigner and frontline person of past year's convulsive thoroughfare question dubbed 'July Uprising'.
"The EC has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) urging broad information arrangements for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Election Commissioners (ECs), elder officials of the Election Commission Secretariat," the state-run BSS quality bureau reported connected precocious Saturday (December 13, 2025).
The EC simultaneously sought other information for its field-level offices up of the 13th nationalist election, arsenic 2 of them came nether onslaught successful southeastern Lakshmipur and southwestern Pirojpur by unidentified miscreants aft the announcement of the docket for the upcoming polls connected Thursday (December 11, 2025).
The committee demanded an further escort conveyance for the CEC, portion 1 specified constabulary escort with a conveyance was presently successful spot for him. It asked for round-the-clock constabulary escorts for the 4 commissioners and the elder secretary.
The missive said the enhanced information measures were "urgent and necessary," portion EC officials said their 10 determination offices, 64 territory predetermination offices and 522 sub-district level offices would store important documents and predetermination materials.
The EC connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) said the upcoming parliamentary predetermination would beryllium held connected February 12 adjacent year, portion a time later, Sharif Osman Hadi was changeable from a adjacent scope successful the head, critically wounding him, arsenic helium initiated his predetermination run from a constituency successful the capital.
Critically sick erstwhile Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) simultaneously asked Muhammad Yunus' authorities to supply information for each candidates successful the upcoming predetermination aft the onslaught connected Hadi, who leads a extremist right-wing taste radical called Inquiab Mancha.
"We request that the existent culprit beryllium identified instantly and brought nether the law, and we telephone upon this authorities to guarantee the information of each candidates without delay," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Hadi was besides a frontline person of past year's student-led convulsive uprising that toppled then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities connected August 5, 2024.
His Inquilab Mancha was besides astatine the forefront of a run to disband the Awami League, which the interim authorities complied with successful May this year, disqualifying the enactment from contesting the polls.
The authorities connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) ordered a nationwide information clampdown called 'Operation Devil Hunt 2' amid escalated fears implicit the instrumentality and bid concern and promised to contented firearms licenses for predetermination candidates for their ain security.
Home advisor (retd) Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said the authorities had taken steps to guarantee peculiar information for the "frontline fighters" of the July Uprising and promised to contented firearms licenses for the predetermination candidates.
He emphasised that the 2nd signifier of the 'Devil Hunt' was aimed astatine helping guarantee nationalist information and combat the increasing menace of amerciable arms.
The cognition was initially launched successful February this twelvemonth pursuing protests implicit an onslaught connected the backstage location of a erstwhile curate of the ousted authorities successful the bluish suburb of the capital, erstwhile it targeted alleged "henchmen" and supporters of the present disbanded Awami League.
