Kazi Habibul Awal made CEC
Other members of the commission are former District and Session Judge Begum Rashida Sultana, former Brigadier General Ahsan Habib Khan, former Senior Secretary Md Alamgir and former Senior Secretary Anisur Rahman
Former Senior Secretary Kazi Habibul Awal has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner.
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday (26 February) appointed him and other Election Commissioners a day after the EC search committee submitted the shortlist of candidates.
Other members of the commission are former District and Session Judge Begum Rashida Sultana, former Brigadier General Ahsan Habib Khan, former Senior Secretary Md Alamgir and former Senior Secretary Anisur Rahman.
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![Former District and Session Judge Begum Rashida Sultana [top left], former Brigadier General Ahsan Habib Khan [top right], former Senior Secretary Anisur Rahman [bottom left] and former Senior Secretary Md Alamgir [bottom right].](https://tbsnews.net/sites/default/files/styles/infograph/public/images/2022/02/26/commissioners.png)
The newly appointed EC will take oath on Sunday at the Judges Lounge of the Supreme Court at 4:30pm.
Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique will administer their oath.
Kazi Habibul Awal joined the government service as an assistant judge in 1981 through Bangladesh Civil Service (Judicial).
He served as a district judge in different districts and joined the legislative drafting wing of the ministry as joint secretary in 2000 and was promoted to additional secretary in 2003.
He joined the Defence Ministry as Secretary in 2014.
Later, he was appointed as Senior Secretary in the same ministry on 1 December 2014. He retired on 20 January 2015.
He was then reappointed as Senior Secretary again in Defence Ministry on 21 January 2015.
Earlier on 24 February, the EC search committee handed over the final list of 10 candidates to the president in a meeting at the Bangabhaban.
This is the first time that an election commission has been formed through a search committee under the EC formation law, passed in the parliament on 27 January.
The nominations were finalised by shortlisting 320 candidates in seven separate meetings of the search panel. The committee also held four meetings with eminent citizens and journalists, many of whom repeatedly called for making the list public.
Later the panel published the initial list of 322 candidates but refrained from publishing the final picks, saying it did not have the legal authority to do so.
