It has been simultaneously recognised many times by the Bangladesh Bank, country's newspapers, intellectuals and political leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties that there is a major role of Bangladeshi expatriates in every " budget" of the country.

But it is a matter of great regret that although Bangladeshi expatriates are helping their country's economic growth by sending millions of foreign currency, they are not allowed to take part in general election as a candidate for membership of parliament and even they are not enlisted in the voter list of their own constituency. As a result, when they are in the country at the time of parliamentary election or any election they could not participate in voting, despite being citizens of Bangladesh. And it is happening due to some provisions about citizenship in the constitution of the country and the rules set by the Election Commission.

Our question is, we are holders of international passport, could send money to homeland and regularly visit our country, then why shouldn't we be included in the voter list? We think it is a violation of our rights.

If our leaders want remittances from the expatriates then what is the problem in enlisting us as voters? If anybody complains about fake voting by expatriates, we would like to tell them since each and every expatriate is holder of international passport, if they are enlisted in the voter list of the country and appear to exercise voting right with passport, it will be a clean deal.

In the light of above circumstances , I would like to request the policy makers of the government of Bangladesh and Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh to take step to regularise the voter list of the country by enlisting/ including names of all Bangladeshi expatriates all over the world. Which easily is possible by collecting data from their heads of the families, so as to enable them to exercise their voting right when they are visiting the country and/or through the embassies in respective foreign countries.