Dhaka, April 29 -- Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said the Election Commission's initiatives to facilitate expatriate voting will prove ineffective without the active support of political parties.

"We want to introduce a feasible option. We seek your support. Even on a small scale, we want to begin the journey.if political leaders do not support us, all our exercises will end in futility," he said while inaugurating a seminar at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the morning.

The Election Commission arranged the seminar on voting from abroad in a bid to find an effective mechanism to ensure the voting rights of expatriate Bangladeshis in the next general election.

Political leaders from various parties, including BNP, Jama...