Awami League yesterday criticised the BNP for providing misleading information to foreign diplomats in Dhaka about the role played by the Election Commission.
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said such a move showed the servile and narrow mentality of the BNP’s leadership.
“The BNP has again started anti-state movements as it has been the party’s historic strategy since its introduction in cantonment. The BNP always depends on conspiracy. They have given faulty information to the diplomats,” Hanif told a press conference at party chief Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi office.
His comments came after a delegation of senior BNP leaders, led by BNP Standing Committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan, met foreign diplomats yesterday.
Moyeen Khan later told journalists that they have briefed the diplomats about the regular violations of the electoral code by ministers, MPs and leaders of the ruling party, the indiscriminate arrests of opposition candidates, and the EC’s subservient role and failure to ensure a level playing field for the December 30 municipal elections.
Regarding BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s recent remarks about the true number of Liberation War martyrs, Hanif said Khaleda should apologise to citizens for expressing doubts about the number of war casualties, adding that the government should initiate legal action for such a remark.
