Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday accused the Election Commission (EC) of trying to rig the national polls introducing electronic voting machine (EVM) to help AL cling to power.
“The EC is working to implement government agenda by rigging vote through the EVM. To implement this agenda, EC is trying utmost to introduce EVM in next national polls,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said it in a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office.
He said that both the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Election Commission Secretary are active in this regard.
“The EC is now run by some irresponsible persons who sold out themselves. They are relentlessly working to fulfill government’s desires by snatching away the voting rights of the people,” he said.
The BNP leader said that the CEC in Khulna said that EVM would be used at a limited scale in the next election, but the EC Secretary in Chattogram announced that the Commission initially will buy 84,000 EVMs to use in city areas only.
Rizvi said, EVM has been ignored in most of the advanced countries. Apart from this, most of the political parties and civil society leaders are opposed to use of the EVM in next polls. But the EC is now busy to use EVM in next polls. “The head of the government is using all weapons to cling to the power. CEC and EC secretary are busy implementing government’s agenda through using EVM in next Parliament election,” said Rizvi.
BNP Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman, Ahmed Azam Khan, Training Affairs Secretary ABM Mosharraf Hossain and Assistant-Organizing Secretary Abdus Salam Azad were present.
The BNP on Sunday accused the Election Commission (EC) of trying to rig the national polls introducing electronic voting machine (EVM) to help AL cling to power.
“The EC is working to implement government agenda by rigging vote through the EVM. To implement this agenda, EC is trying utmost to introduce EVM in next national polls,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said it in a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office.
He said that both the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Election Commission Secretary are active in this regard.
“The EC is now run by some irresponsible persons who sold out themselves. They are relentlessly working to fulfill government’s desires by snatching away the voting rights of the people,” he said.
The BNP leader said that the CEC in Khulna said that EVM would be used at a limited scale in the next election, but the EC Secretary in Chattogram announced that the Commission initially will buy 84,000 EVMs to use in city areas only.
Rizvi said, EVM has been ignored in most of the advanced countries. Apart from this, most of the political parties and civil society leaders are opposed to use of the EVM in next polls. But the EC is now busy to use EVM in next polls. “The head of the government is using all weapons to cling to the power. CEC and EC secretary are busy implementing government’s agenda through using EVM in next Parliament election,” said Rizvi.
BNP Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman, Ahmed Azam Khan, Training Affairs Secretary ABM Mosharraf Hossain and Assistant-Organizing Secretary Abdus Salam Azad were present.
