Dhaka, Sept. 30 -- The Election Commission is set to award registration to two new political parties - National Citizen Party (NCP) and Bangladesh Jatiya League - as they have fulfilled conditions, said EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed on Tuesday.

"We received applications from 143 parties seeking registration. After scrutiny, we shortlisted 22 parties for further field-level inquiries. After reviewing this information (gleaned from field-level), our position is that two parties have preliminarily met the conditions. The two parties are National Citizen Party (NCP) and Bangladesh Jatiya League," he said while briefing reporters in the evening.

The EC Secretary said the Commission will now publish a public notification in newspapers invi...