পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৭৭

50 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বিতীয় খন্ড It was desired of the Government to have single-member wards but the authorized electoral list was prepared for national elections and was not readily adaptable for these primary elections, specially in the short time at our disposal. There was thus in many cases no alternative but to have multiple-member wards. A schedule giving the unions and wards is attached. Nomination papers and their scrutiny: Following figures give the salient features: (a)No. of nomination papers originally field 4 g р ... 87,190 (b)No. of nomination papers withdraw - - - ... 6,040 (c)No. of nomination papers rejected a 4 o' ... 2,274 Instructions were issued to Returning Officer not to reject nomination papers on flimsy ground. The grounds of rejection were: (a) the candidate having any of the disqualifications mentioned in Pan II of the Second Schedule of the Basic Democracies Order. (b) Nomination papers were not signed by candidate, proposer or seconder. (c) Signature of candidate proposer or seconder challenged and could not be proved to be genuine. (d) the age of the candidate was below 25 years. (e) Names of the candidates not found in the Electoral Roll of the Union. (0 Declaration on the nomination paper not signed by the candidate. (g) Candidates were teachers of educational institutions. The Total number of candidates elected without contest, was 7,083. In 14 constituencies, no nomination papers were filed ten of which were in Bogra district, three in Rajshahi and one in Khulna. Publicity Campaign: Basic Democracies was a radical departure from the old institutions and that too in a fundamental sphere. A massive publicity campaign had to be mounted to satisfy the public need for information. In this province special effort had to be made to ensure that public did not assume the basic democracies to be union and district boards in a new form. Publicity campaign on Basic Democracies was touched off by the Radio Broadcast of the President from Dacca Radio Station on 2nd September. A number of articles on Basic Democracies were issued to the press by the Reconstruction Bureau which were published both in English and Bengali in all the daily newspapers.