Trashing the allegations of vote manipulation, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has said the BNP's announcement of quitting the polls was preplanned.
He made the remarks while expressing his party's reaction over BNP's announcement of rejecting the polls in both the city corporations under Dhaka at a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
Claiming the BNP is trying to create a new issue for conducting nationwide violence, he said: “The BNP has boycotted the polls as it understood it would lose the race. It was preplanned.”
“The BNP leaders do not want peace. They are looking for a new issue to affect the ongoing peaceful situation in the country.”