The BNP yesterday alleged that the Election Commission has been working in favour of Awami League-backed candidates in the ongoing upazila elections.
“The Election Commission is working to make ruling party-supported candidates winners in the upazila elections. We, along with the people of the country, will give a befitting reply to the misdeeds,” BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
Inspired by the violence in the third phase elections, Awami League activists were flexing muscle for staging showdowns in the fourth phase polls, creating panic among the voters, he alleged.
“Besides, the law enforcement agencies are being used against democracy and the voting rights of people,” he said, adding that the EC has turned into a puppet organisation of the administration. Criticising the prime minister’s speech in parliament that drive was on against armed activists to hold peaceful elections, Rizvi said the premier conducted drives at the houses of innocent people, not the armed hooligans.
BNP Joint Secretary General Salah Uddin Ahmed, Mass Education Affairs Secretary Sanaullah Miah and Deputy Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony were present among others.
