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‘Deafening silence’ marks city polls: BNP

Published : Friday, 1 March, 2019 at 12:00 AM  Count : 133

The BNP on Thursday said the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-poll witnessed 'deafening silence' though election is considered a festival in the country.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir
Rizvi Ahmed came up with the remark at a press conference at the party headquarters in Nayapaltan in the capital.
The BNP and its alliance Jatiya Oikyafront boycotted the city polls claiming that the last general election on December 30 was nothing but a ballot robbery.
At the press conference, Rizvi said the fate of the mayorship was determined the night before the voting day by stuffing ballot boxes in favour of the ruling Awami League candidate and now just formalities are being completed.  The ruling party candidate will be declared winner in the mayoral race after the end of the voting, the BNP leader said. He accused the government of destroying democracy with its 'autocratic' rule.
On Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda's comment that low voter turnout in the city polls is not the liability of the Commission, the BNP Senior Joint General Secretary said the CEC apparently admitted that the Commission has no acceptability to the people of the country and the political parties.
Rizvi said it is the CEC who played the pivotal role in plunging the country into a deep crisis by installing an illegal government through a mega festival of vote rigging on December 30.
 The EC only deserves people's condemnation, not appreciation for the incidents of ballot stuffing the night before the voting and vote rigging, he said.









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