Dhaka: Video footage captured by closed-circuit cameras at polling stations during the recent general election and referendum will be preserved at the offices of assistant returning officers. The Election Commission has decided to preserve video footage from the day before voting and the voting day for documentation purposes.
According to United News of Bangladesh, the Commission issued directives to 69 returning officers, including two divisional commissioners from Dhaka and Chattogram, three regional election officers from Dhaka, Chattogram, and Khulna, and 64 district deputy commissioners, to store the video footage. The EC, in a letter signed by EC Deputy Secretary Mohammad Monir Hossain, instructed returning officers to keep the footage at the office of the assistant returning officers concerned.
The 13th parliamentary election and referendum took place at 42,659 polling stations in 299 out of 300 constituencies across the country on February 12. Approximately 90 percent of these polling stations were monitored by CC cameras.
On February 13, the EC published a gazette of 297 elected MP candidates. Election results from the Chattogram-2 and 4 constituencies were withheld due to court orders, and the election in Sherpur-3 was previously canceled following the death of a candidate.
In this election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured 209 parliamentary seats, while Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami claimed 68 seats. The National Citizen Party-NCP won six constituencies, independent candidates secured seven, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish earned two, Islami Andolan Bangladesh won one, Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP (led by Andaleeve Rahman Partho) gained one, Ganaodhikar Parishad won one, Ganasamhati Andolan secured one, and Khelafat Majlish took one parliamentary seat. The BNP-led electoral alliance won a total of 212 constituencies, while the Jamaat-led alliance secured 77 constituencies.