Calling the municipal elections as farcical and staged-managed ones, BNP on Wednesday demanded re-elections to around 1,500 centres in at least 157 municipalities bringing the allegations of capturing polling stations, vote rigging and other anomalies.
At a post-polls press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the demand. He said their candidates and agents lodged various complaints regarding violence, vote frauds and anomalies with respective returning officers in around 200 municipalities.
“We’d earlier said the election will not be free and fair. It was a farcical and staged-managed election. The polls results were pre-determined as they (AL) did everything necessary to install their people in the municipalities.”
Fakhrul said the ‘manipulated’ municipal elections also exposed that the government’s popularity has gone down to zero level. “The polls have once again proved no election can be free and fair under Awami League.”
The BNP leader said the government has used all the government machinery to ensure the victories of the ruling party candidates.
