Dhaka, Nov. 19 -- Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Wednesday urged leaders of political parties to motivate the country's voters to go to the polling stations during national election.

"Over the last 10 to 15 years, our country's voters have gradually become reluctant to go to the polling centres. You are the national leaders and political leaders. The people at the grassroots are directly influenced by you. I request you to motivate the voters to go to the centres," he said while addressing a pre-election dialogue at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, National Citizen Party (NCP) and several other political parties joined the discussion which began at 10:30am with the CEC in the chair.

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