DCC polls declared to thwart BNP’s movement: Fakhrul
The government announced Dhaka city corporation polls with an aim to thwart BNP’s anti-government movement, the party’s spokesperson said today.
“The announcement was made to divert people’s attention from the opposition’s movement,” BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said while talking to reporters at Labaid Specialised Hospital in Dhaka.
He went to the hospital on Mirpur Road to visit noted film director Chashi Nazrul Islam who was rushed there in an ailing condition.
Fakhrul’s comment came a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared that the long overdue elections to the bifurcated DCC will be held early next year.
She made the announcement at the weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat after sending back a proposal that sought extension of the tenure of the DCC administrators to one year from six months.
The premier however did not specify exactly when the elections would take place.
Talking on the sedition charge brought against the former DCC mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the BNP leader said the government is implicating the party men in such cases fearing the party’s movement.
Yesterday, police pressed sedition charge against BNP leader Khoka for directed the party leaders and activists to keep armed with machetes and axes to counter any attacks while joining a rally, which was scheduled for October 25 last year in Dhaka.
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