News Desk :
Referring to the incidents of ballot snatching at various union parishad elections, election commissioner Mahbub Talukder on Wednesday said it is necessary to stop this situation by providing protection to ballot papers at any cost.
“We face questions that the election commission holds election at night in place of day after the BBC broadcast the incident of ballot paper on the night before the 2018 national election. This is in no way expected.”
While speaking to newspersons at his office, Mahbub Talukder made the remarks at the election commission in the capital’s Agargaon on Wednesday afternoon.
Mahbub Talukder said, “The substantial condition of election is to ensure protection of ballot papers ahead and after the voting. We have failed to do it properly. I don’t think law enforcement agencies can avoid the responsibility.”
Violence and clash has become a regular phenomenon of union parishand (UP) elections. Now there are clashes in election, no voting. UP election has turned into a tragedy instead of festivity. But election and violence cannot go side by side, Mahbub Talukder moaned.
