Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Friday alleged that the government played a role in ‘foiling’ the scheduled DNCC by-polls.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party’s Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed accused the gogvernment at two separate programmes.
“The DNCC by-polls were stayed because of the hands of the government’s law ministry and the Election Commission,” Mirza Fakhrul said while talking to reporters after placing a wreath at late President Ziaur Rahman’s grave in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, marking his 82nd birth anniversary.
He said that the government did it to avoid its almost sure defeat in the by-polls.
Earlier on Wednesday, the High Court (HC) stayed for three months the DNCC mayor by-polls upon two separate writ petitions.
The by-polls were scheduled to be held on 26 February.
Mirza Fakhrul said, the EC has also demonstrated its ‘incompetence and failure’ by announcing the schedule for the by-polls without completing all the necessary work.
BNP Secretary General asked the government to reach an understating through talks with political parties for holding the11th Parliamentary polls in a fair and credible manner.
He said, “If a level playing field is not created and Khaleda Zia is not freed from political cases, a credible election would not be possible.”
Besides this, Barrister Moudud Ahmed said, “The Law Ministry’s inaction over the apex court’s stay order on the mayor by-polls of DNCC has exposed that it has a role behind.”
“If the government has been sincere for holding the by-polls, it would have moved to the Appellate Division challenging the HC order,” said Moudud Ahmed while addressing a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club organised by the Jagpa Chhatra League.
The BNP leader says that the government is unwilling to hold the DNCC by-polls for fear of defeat.
He also came down hard on Attorney General Mahbubey Alam for not appearing in the High Court during the hearing on the writs seeking stay on the by-polls. Moudud, also a former Law Minister, said, the government can still appeal against the stay order if it really wants to hold the by-election.
The BNP on Friday alleged that the government played a role in ‘foiling’ the scheduled DNCC by-polls.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party’s Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed accused the gogvernment at two separate programmes.
“The DNCC by-polls were stayed because of the hands of the government’s law ministry and the Election Commission,” Mirza Fakhrul said while talking to reporters after placing a wreath at late President Ziaur Rahman’s grave in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, marking his 82nd birth anniversary.
He said that the government did it to avoid its almost sure defeat in the by-polls.
Earlier on Wednesday, the High Court (HC) stayed for three months the DNCC mayor by-polls upon two separate writ petitions.
The by-polls were scheduled to be held on 26 February.
Mirza Fakhrul said, the EC has also demonstrated its ‘incompetence and failure’ by announcing the schedule for the by-polls without completing all the necessary work.
BNP Secretary General asked the government to reach an understating through talks with political parties for holding the11th Parliamentary polls in a fair and credible manner.
He said, “If a level playing field is not created and Khaleda Zia is not freed from political cases, a credible election would not be possible.”
Besides this, Barrister Moudud Ahmed said, “The Law Ministry’s inaction over the apex court’s stay order on the mayor by-polls of DNCC has exposed that it has a role behind.”
“If the government has been sincere for holding the by-polls, it would have moved to the Appellate Division challenging the HC order,” said Moudud Ahmed while addressing a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club organised by the Jagpa Chhatra League.
The BNP leader says that the government is unwilling to hold the DNCC by-polls for fear of defeat.
He also came down hard on Attorney General Mahbubey Alam for not appearing in the High Court during the hearing on the writs seeking stay on the by-polls. Moudud, also a former Law Minister, said, the government can still appeal against the stay order if it really wants to hold the by-election.
