BNP besiege the Deputy Commissioners’ (DCs) offices in the country on Thursday in protest against capturing of a large number of polling centres and manipulation of both vote casting and counting by the ruling party men during the third phase of upazila election held on March 15.The programme is also against the disappearances and secret killings of the political leaders and workers throughout the country, but none claims responsibility, nor the government takes steps to stop it.The party will also submit memorandums, containing its demands to the deputy commissioners on the day.BNP Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at the Nayapaltan central office in presence of a group of journalists. “The government has preferred violence in order to win more chairman posts than they deserved in the upazila polls. Irregularities and vote fraud with the help of administrations has marked the polls,” he said.Rizvi alleged that the ruling party men also swooped on the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami backed candidates to drive them out of polling centers to take control thereof. The BNP leader hit out the Election Commission for playing second fiddle to the government to manipulate poll results by force. The backbone-less Election Commission is spokesman of the government. The EC shut its eyes to the repression, oppression and harassment of the BNP leaders and workers in particular, Rizvi said.The BNP leader further said, the ruling party activists have made the houses and the business establishments of the BNP backed candidates and their supporters in different parts of the country target after the election result and ahead of the 4th phase of upazila election. “They are resorting to violence to divert people’s attention from their misdeeds and vote fraud.”Rizvi also alleged that senior BNP leaders, including its acting BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and Mirza Abbas, have been sent to prison in manufactured cases to hide own misdeeds.He finally asked the government to take lessons from history to avoid people’s wrath.
