The Bill has raked up controversy since it prescribes that the selection committee for CEC and the ECs will be comprise the Prime Minister, the Leader of Opposition and a Union Cabinet Minister.
If the BNP is voted to power, it will implement reforms so that no prime minister or president can serve more than two back-to-back terms, the party has said while unveiling its set of state restructure plans.
Article 326 of the Constitution gives citizens the right to vote and that cannot be overruled by the ancillary law-making powers of parliament, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday.
The ongoing parliament session is set to pass a law aiming to give legal cover to the chief election commissioners and other commissioners appointed through search committees in the past.