The BNP yesterday briefed diplomats working in Bangladesh about the upcoming municipality polls. A team led by BNP leader Abdul Moyeen Khan briefed the diplomats at party chairperson’s Gulshan office.
After the meeting, Khan told journalists: “Already seven mayors and 150 councillors are elected [uncontested]... It is possible because the polls have become one-sided as opposition candidates were barred from submitting nomination papers,” he said.
Khan alleged that in last week only, more than a thousand opposition leaders and activists were arrested.
Urging the government to hold fair polls, Khan said it would be good for the country and the Awami League.
However, the diplomats denied making any comments on the topics of discussion.
Envoys from Australia, Pakistan, Singapore, US, India, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, Canada, Nepal, Japan and the European Union attended the meeting.
According to a source, the diplomats reportedly asked the BNP team whether they were going to pull out of the polls midway like they did in the city corporation elections earlier this year.
In reply, the BNP team assured the diplomats that they would not do it this time.
