98pc centres saw code violation
The BNP chairperson's adviser Hannan Shah yesterday said electoral code of conduct was flouted at 98 percent of the polling centres during the recent polls to the city corporations in Chittagong and Dhaka.
"This government does not believe in people's votes," he said as a panellist at BBC Bangladesh Sanglap.
Dismissing the allegations, another panellist, Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta, said the BNP is making such claims as the elections did not end in its favour. "You [BNP] participated in and won five elections when Awami League was in power. You did not complain then," he said.
Hannan Shah, however, was of the opinion that the election was a moral victory for the BNP as people now know that the ruling party is incapable of holding a fair and credible election.
Manusher Jonno Foundation Executive Director Shaheen Anam demanded a detailed account of irregularities during the polls.
"We are yet to receive a full picture of rigging from the Election Commission, Election Working Group, BNP or the government," she said.
EWG Steering Committee members Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah and Taleya Rehman said "a level playing field" was not ensured before the polls.
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