UNB, Dhaka :
In the wake of Khulna and Gazipur polls, BNP has worked out ‘strategies’ to apply in today’s elections to three city corporations to ensure the presence of its polling agents at all the centres and encourage party supporters to cast their votes ‘braving all odds’.
Talking to UNB, some party senior leaders said
they will in no way engage in any violence in the polls as they have worked out plans to face any unwanted situation tactfully instead of applying force.
If their plans do not work and the elections are not held in a free and fair manner, they said, it will only justify further their demand for holding the next general election under a non-party and neutral administration.
As part of their strategies, party leaders said they have formed centre-based committees and appointed those as polling agents who are influential and active in their areas so that they can go to the polling stations.
Besides, they said, a group of their party leaders and activists will take position near polling stations to prevent the ouster of their party’s polling agents and obstructing voters.
Another group will visit the houses of party supporters to encourage female voters to go to voting centres.
The BNP leaders said they have trained their polling agents and given them various directions about facing any unwarranted situation and check vote frauds.
They also said the polling agents of their party backed-councillor candidates are also given direction to work for mayoral candidates, if necessary.
Contacted, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf said the government is ready to hold the elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal applying the Gazipur and Khulna-election model to ensure the victory of the ruling party candidates.
“We’ll try to resist their evil designs with our strategies and together with people,” he added.
BNP vice chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said they have a plan to put up a peaceful resistance together with people against vote rigging and election irregularities. “We’ll apply some strategies, but we won’t be able to fight with law enforcers as they have arms.”
He said if the elections are not held in a fair and credible manner, the true face of the current government and the EC will get exposed again before people just months before the national election.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said though there is no ‘visible sign’ of fair voting in the three cities, BNP candidates and supporters will remain out there in the field till the last moment of the polling.
He said they fear that the ruling party will try to influence the polls by using the law enforcers. “If it happens, the Election Commission will have to be accountable to people.”
In the wake of Khulna and Gazipur polls, BNP has worked out ‘strategies’ to apply in today’s elections to three city corporations to ensure the presence of its polling agents at all the centres and encourage party supporters to cast their votes ‘braving all odds’.
Talking to UNB, some party senior leaders said
they will in no way engage in any violence in the polls as they have worked out plans to face any unwanted situation tactfully instead of applying force.
If their plans do not work and the elections are not held in a free and fair manner, they said, it will only justify further their demand for holding the next general election under a non-party and neutral administration.
As part of their strategies, party leaders said they have formed centre-based committees and appointed those as polling agents who are influential and active in their areas so that they can go to the polling stations.
Besides, they said, a group of their party leaders and activists will take position near polling stations to prevent the ouster of their party’s polling agents and obstructing voters.
Another group will visit the houses of party supporters to encourage female voters to go to voting centres.
The BNP leaders said they have trained their polling agents and given them various directions about facing any unwarranted situation and check vote frauds.
They also said the polling agents of their party backed-councillor candidates are also given direction to work for mayoral candidates, if necessary.
Contacted, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf said the government is ready to hold the elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal applying the Gazipur and Khulna-election model to ensure the victory of the ruling party candidates.
“We’ll try to resist their evil designs with our strategies and together with people,” he added.
BNP vice chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said they have a plan to put up a peaceful resistance together with people against vote rigging and election irregularities. “We’ll apply some strategies, but we won’t be able to fight with law enforcers as they have arms.”
He said if the elections are not held in a fair and credible manner, the true face of the current government and the EC will get exposed again before people just months before the national election.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said though there is no ‘visible sign’ of fair voting in the three cities, BNP candidates and supporters will remain out there in the field till the last moment of the polling.
He said they fear that the ruling party will try to influence the polls by using the law enforcers. “If it happens, the Election Commission will have to be accountable to people.”
