BNP’s Tarique Rahman gets registered as voter in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s Election Commission on Sunday approved the inclusion of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman in the voter list weeks ahead of the February 12 polls. A day earlier, the 60-year-old leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) visited the Election Commission (EC) office here and provided fingerprints and iris scans for biometric enrollment. He had earlier submitted his voter registration application online.

“The Election Commission has approved the inclusion of Tarique Rahman in the voter list,” Director (Public Relations) and Information Officer of the EC Secretariat Ruhul Amin Mallick told state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS). Son of former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Rahman, and his daughter Zamia completed all necessary procedures for voter registration and the issuance of a National Identity Card (NID) at the EC on Saturday. Now, after inclusion in the voter list, a new NID number will be generated for him and his daughter.