Andaleeve for EVM use in Bhola-1
Bangladesh Jatiya Party Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho yesterday urged the Election Commission to use electronic voting machines in Bhola-1, from where he is going to run in the December 30 polls.
He made the comment going against the decision of BNP-led 20-party alliance, of which the BJP is a component. The alliance alleged EVMs could facilitate "the government's plan for election engineering".
In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, Andaleeve said he was ready to bear the cost of using the EVMs.
"The BJP strongly demands EVMs in Bhola-1 even though the 20-party alliance and the Jatiya Oikyfront are opposing it," he wrote in the letter.
He argued if the EC did not allow EVMs for the constituency, it would be discriminatory for the people of his area and it would go against the constitution.
The article 27 of the constitution states all citizens are equal before the law and entitled to equal protection of the law, Andaleeve wrote in his letter.
“We were opposing the large scale use of EVMs and the Election Commission is not doing that. This is why we demand EVMs,” he told The Daily Star.
On November 26, the EC declared to use EVMs in six constituencies -- Dhaka-6, Dhaka-13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2 -- for the election.
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