DHAKA, Feb 27, 2022 (BSS) - The oath taking ceremony of newly-appointed 
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) former senior secretary Quazi Habibul Awal 
and four other election commissioners (ECs) will be held this afternoon.

  The oath taking ceremony will be held at 4:30pm at the Judge's Lounge of 
the Supreme Court here.

   Former Senior Secretary Quazi Habibul Awal got the appointment as CEC.

  The four ECs are District and Session Judge (Retd) Begum Rashida Sultana, 
Brigadier General Ahsan Habib Khan (Retd), Senior Secretary (Retd) M Alamgir 
and Senior Secretary (Retd) Anisur Rahman.

   On Saturday, President M Abdul Hamid gave the appointment of CEC and other 
ECs and the cabinet division issued a gazette notification in this regard.

   Earlier on February 22, the search committee on the formation of the EC 
had finalized the name of 10 selected persons. The committee handed over a 
list of the selected persons to the head of the country on February 24.

  "The search committee has finalized the names of 10 prominent persons," 
said Cabinet Secretary Khondoker Anwarul Islam who is providing secretarial 
aid to the EC. 

   Appellate Division Justice Obaidul Hasan performed role as the chief of 
the search committee. The other members of the search committee were High 
Court division justice SM Quddus Zaman, Comptroller and Auditor General 
Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury, Bangladesh Public Service Commission Chairman 
Sohrab Hossain, former Election Commissioner Muhammad Sahul Hossain and 
fiction writer Professor Anwara Syed Haq.

   The search committee was scheduled to finish their duties by February 27, 
but it has been able to complete its duty within February 24.