Govt approves ordinance allowing voter registration until before election schedule

The interim government on Tuesday approved the drafts of three ordinances, including the Electoral Rolls (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, which will allow eligible people to get registered as voters up to a reasonable time before the election schedule is announced.

As per the existing law, young people who become eligible to vote after January 2 are deprived of their voting rights if the elections are held in the following months, even till March of the next year.

The approval came at a meeting of the Council of Advisers, held at the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO), with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in the chair.

“The meeting gave the final approval to the draft of the Electoral Rolls (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025,” said CA’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam while briefing reporters at the Foreign Service Academy.

Besides, he said, the Council of Advisers approved two other draft ordinances, which are now subject to legal vetting.

These are the ‘Human Organ Transplantation Ordinance, 2025’ and the ‘Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025,’ he added.