Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said the Election Commission will be fully ready to conduct the next national election within the timeframe announced by the Chief Adviser.

“We will be fully prepared to hold the election as per the timeframe hinted by the Honorable Chief Adviser for the national election,” he said while talking to reporters at his office here in the capital.

The CEC said his commission started working for the national election from day one. “We are taking all the necessary preparations for the national election,” he said.

Earlier on Monday, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus said the next national election can be arranged at a time between the end of 2025 and first half of 2026.

“The election can be scheduled between the end of 2025 and the first half of 2026," he said in a televised speech to the nation.

About the time, the CEC said the Chief Adviser announced a time limit and they will move forward accordingly.

“We are not thinking of announcing any roadmap publicly. However, we will have our own action plan to work on,” he said replying to a question.

As part of the preparations, the Election Commission will first prepare an authentic voter list, he said.

Nasir Uddin said the commission is not thinking about holding local government elections before the parliamentary elections.

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About the voter list, he said the commission will have a new final voter list in two months.

Then it will go for a door-to-door data collection to revise the list again by excluding the dead persons and duplicated voters through verification, added the CEC. “The vote (national election) will be held in the light of that revised list.”

In reply to another question about the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, the CEC said the delimitation will be done on the basis of fairness. 

“If any delimitation was done on purpose to help a candidate win or someone lose, we will surely address it,” he said.

The CEC said the delimitation of the constituencies will be done on the basis of neither the 2001one nor the current one. “We will do it on the basis of fairness,” he added.