EC's ill motive is the reason: BNP
The BNP yesterday expressed grave concern over the inversion of the male to female voter ratio in the updated voter list, and alleged that it was Election Commission's ill motives that led to the inversion.
Addressing a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan office, BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said in 2008, there were 14.13 lakh more female voters than male voters, but in the updated list of 2013, male voters surpassed female voters by 2.91 lakh.
Ripon said the present "subservient" commission was not interested in eligible female voters as they vote in favour of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Pointing to the EC's move to collect data of people under 18 and above 15, Ripon said the commission's move is unlawful.
Meanwhile, EC Secretary Sirazul Islam denied having any ill motive behind relatively smaller increase of female voters, and stressed that the electoral roll was updated following proper procedure.
He believes females are less interested in being on the list.
In Bangladesh, at the moment there are 50.39 percent male voters and 49.61 percent female voters, he told The Daily Star.
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