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No.1 preferred an appeal dated 19.12.2013 to the Secretary, Election
Commission stating that although 30 working days had passed since
the application had been made but he had not been informed of
anything by the said Officer (RTI) [Annexure-I]. The Election
Commission
issued
a
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reply
dated
vide
23.12.2013
Memo
No.
informing
the
petitioner No.1 that the Election Commission received opinions on his
request from 21 registered political parties out of which only 3 (three)
political parties, namely Bangladesh Muslim League, Jatiya
Shomajtantrik Dal (JSD) and Bikalpadhara Bangladesh consented to
the disclosure of their audited annual statements of accounts. The
Election Commission further stated that the Commission was in the
process of collecting opinion from the rest of the registered political
parties, but did not specify any time-limit for completing the process.
The Secretary of the Election Commission accordingly issued a
direction dated 01.01.2014 to the designated Officer of the
Commission requiring him to supply to the petitioner No.1 statements
of accounts of those political parties, who had consented
to the
disclosure (Annexure- J and J-1 respectively).
It has further been stated that since the petitioner No.1 did not
receive any further information or response from the Election
Commission, he submitted a review application dated 06.04.2014 to
the Chief Information Commissioner, with copies to the two
Information Commissioners, expressing his grievance about the
failure of the Election Commission to provide any further information