The BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday accused the ruling party agents of vandailising the police vehicles and setting those on fire in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan office on Wednesday during the clash on the city roads at the time of the sale of the nomination papers.
The clash was unfortunate and unwanted, said Rizvi, adding that the BNP
is a democratic party and believes in the change of the government through constitutional means. There is no room for extremism and violence in the party manifesto since its inception.
With reference to the ruling party’s undue preference in the Election Office, the BNP joint secretary general said that a member of the ruling AL’s election sub-committee enters the EC office as per free will and none opposes.
“The Election Commission is supplying him with information as deems necessary. The Election Commission has become an office of the ruling Awami League,” Rizvi said it in a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office.
Rizvi said that AL’s election sub-committee member Mostafizur Rahman Babla is regularly entering the EC offices and extracting information from officials through intimidation.
“He collects information from the EC office by threatening the officials. He threatens the officials as saying if they failed to give him information they would be labeled as anti-government and would be transferred to remote areas. The talented officials are scared of him,” said Rizvi showing photographs of Babla with the EC secretary and other higher officials.
He is on very good terms with the EC secretary. The commission has never taken any measure when we brought this issue to its notice several times.
Rizvi also accused Farhad Ahmed Khan, Joint-Secretary at the election management division of the EC of involving with the partisan activities favoruing Awami League.
Rizvi also condemned the arrests of 68 BNP leaders and activists, including Nipun Roy Chowdhury, and asked the government to free them.
