Staff Reporter :
Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said he has information that the Jukto Front and Jatiya Oikyo Prokriya will participate in the upcoming national polls.
“I think the Election Commission (EC) will announce the schedule for the upcoming parliamentary election in the first week of November,” he added.
The Minister came up with the information while talking to reporters at the secretariat.
“BNP’s demand for a neutral government to oversee the general election goes beyond the constitutional jurisdiction. They’re insisting on it for creating anarchy in a peaceful country,” he said. Quader said there is no necessity of a neutral government, as the demand should be made for a neutral election. “The Election Commission will conduct the election. So, the EC needs to be neutral as law enforcement agencies will remain under the Commission.”
The jurisdiction of the election-time government will be limited, said Quader, adding that the polls-time government will be formed by October. “BNP wants to create an anarchic situation in peaceful Bangladesh…they, in fact, want a special emergency government,” he added. “There’s nothing to invite BNP to participate in the election. Election is not any private function to be held at my house that I will invite them. All the parties will participate in the election. No one will wait for BNP,” the AL leader quipped.
