6 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 17.00.0000.040.22.001.10-271 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

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