Md Maniruzzaman, chief election commissioner of the JUCSU polls, has said they are hoping to finish counting votes by Friday night.
"We hope to complete vote counting by tonight… We will then be able to formally announce the results. However, we cannot specify how long it would take. It can even take the whole night, give or take," he said around 8pm from the vote counting centre at the Senate Building on Jahangirnagar University campus.
"In the meantime, to speed up the process, we have involved more people," he said.
Earlier, he had said only three groups were working on three tables for the counting of votes due to a limitation of space. "We are now increasing the number of tables."
Rejecting the claim that there is an attempt to disrupt the election by delaying results, he said, "Our role is to hold the elections. Not to disrupt it."
The university administration is ready to provide any kind of assistance in the vote counting, said JU Vice-Chancellor Professor Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan.
Thanking those involved in the JU elections, the VC said, "I was informed that following a complaint, the process of counting with machines has been suspended by the Election Commission. Now, some small groups are doing the inhumane work of counting physically."
