BNP pins hopes on 'huge response' from voters in Ctg
After braving “difficulties” in campaign, BNP-led Jatiya Oikyafront candidates in Chattogram are now waiting for a “ballot revolution” by voters in the 11th national polls, scheduled to be held tomorrow.
Meanwhile, grand alliance candidates expect that people would vote for them, as the AL-led government completed extensive development works in the port city and elsewhere in the country in the last ten years.
“People are eagerly waiting... they would go to the polling centres on December 30,” said BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, adding, “When people of the country get united, they make the impossible possible.”
Khasru, a candidate in Chattogram-11, alleged, “We could not conduct campaigns due to hindrance by the AL men; police continuously raided houses of our leaders, activists and probable polling agents.”
“First, AL men attacked our leaders and activists; then they attacked our probable polling agents; and finally they began to attack the candidates.”
“Had we not contested the polls, people would not have the option to choose their candidates... they would not have go to the polling centres in that case,” said Khasru, adding, “Now, as we are contesting, voters have a choice and they would exercise their franchise properly.”
Echoing the same, BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman, a candidate in Chattogram-10, said his activists could not go for campaign in many areas due to attack and hindrance by AL men.
“People would come out of their houses on polls day and answer all injustice through ballot,” he said.
Sources said of the 16 constituencies in Chattogram, campaigns for BNP-led alliance candidates were not found in most areas in Ctg-1 (Mirsarai), Ctg-3 (Sandwip), Ctg-6 (Raozan), Ctg-7 (Rangunia), Ctg-9 (Kotwali), Ctg-13 (Anwara-Karnaphuli), Ctg-14 (Chandanaish and part of Satkania) and Ctg-15 (Lohagara and part of Satkania) constituencies, while AL-led alliance candidates went for all-out campaigns in all constituencies.
Denying the allegations of hindering opposition's campaign, AL Chattogram city unit general secretary AJM Nasir Uddin said all candidates could conduct campaigns in Chattogram freely and no major incidents occurred except for some sporadic ones.
Nasir, also mayor of Chattogram City Corporation, said AL-led government has completed massive development works in Chattogram and elsewhere in the country, and so people would vote for their candidates.
“People would definitely evaluate the works of our government in polls,” he said.
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