Staff Reporter :
BNP on Thursday urged the Election Commission to take visible and effective measures to ensure security of their party agents and voters on February 1, the day of the Dhaka City Corporations elections.
A delegation of BNP’s Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections conducting committee made the demand during a meeting with returning officer Abdul Baten at his office at the Sadeque Hossain Khoka Community Centre in Gopibagh on Thursday afternoon.
After the meeting, delegation leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Abdus Salam told journalists that they had recommended that the EC ensure a level-playing field so that the ruling party cannot influence the elections.
“We expressed deep concerns to the EC over the arrests of our leaders and activists and unnecessary search of their houses by police to intimidate them, as well as code of conduct violations by AL leaders and activists,” he said.
Salam said that the EC is yet to take any action against those ruling party men
who have been involved in numerous irregularities since the start of the campaign, despite the BNP elections conducting committee submitting a written complaint to the EC.
“Such role of the EC has created a negative impression in the minds of city dwellers,” he added.
Among others, BNP Organising Secretaries Fazlul Haque Milon and Imran Saleh Prince were also present at the meeting.
BNP on Thursday urged the Election Commission to take visible and effective measures to ensure security of their party agents and voters on February 1, the day of the Dhaka City Corporations elections.
A delegation of BNP’s Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections conducting committee made the demand during a meeting with returning officer Abdul Baten at his office at the Sadeque Hossain Khoka Community Centre in Gopibagh on Thursday afternoon.
After the meeting, delegation leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Abdus Salam told journalists that they had recommended that the EC ensure a level-playing field so that the ruling party cannot influence the elections.
“We expressed deep concerns to the EC over the arrests of our leaders and activists and unnecessary search of their houses by police to intimidate them, as well as code of conduct violations by AL leaders and activists,” he said.
Salam said that the EC is yet to take any action against those ruling party men
who have been involved in numerous irregularities since the start of the campaign, despite the BNP elections conducting committee submitting a written complaint to the EC.
“Such role of the EC has created a negative impression in the minds of city dwellers,” he added.
Among others, BNP Organising Secretaries Fazlul Haque Milon and Imran Saleh Prince were also present at the meeting.
