, Oct. 11 -- e-Islami Assistant Secretary General AHM Hamidur Rahman Azad on Saturday stressed the need for introducing proportional representation, an electoral system where the distribution of seats in parliament would align with the proportion of total votes received by each party, in a bid to avoid electoral irregularities and ensuring that every vote counts.

"The first and foremost benefit of implementing PR would be that every vote counts, and the voter can thus recognize that he or she is represented in parliament," Hamidur Rahman said, while addressing a seminar in the capital.

The Jamaat leader drew his comparison with the issue of so-called 'wasted votes' under the prevailing First-Past-The-Post system, where the votes falling...