Dhaka, Dec. 11 -- For the first time in the country's parliamentary election history, the Election Commission (EC) appointed three of its own officials, along with two divisional commissioners and 64 district deputy commissioners (DCs), as returning officers for the February 12 election and referendum.

According to the EC officials, the Regional Election Officers of Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna have been given the responsibilities of returning officers for specific constituencies in the election.

Besides, the divisional commissioners for Dhaka and Chattogram as well the deputy commissioners of 64 districts were made the returning officers in the 13th parliamentary election and the referendum on the July National Charter (Constitutional ...