JSD for holding UZ election under CG
Expressing doubt over the holding of a long-desired upazila election under the next political government, leaders of Jatiya Samajtantric Dal (JSD) yesterday called for holding the same under the caretaker government (CG) on December 24 and 28 as announced by the Election Commission (EC).
At a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity auditorium, they also criticised the government and the EC for yielding to the pressure of some political parties as they moved back from their earlier stand of holding the upazila polls before the national election.
Presided over by Executive President Prof Mohammad Shafiq, the press conference was also addressed by Vice-president Abul Khair Sajjat, Joint General Secretaries Ataul Karim Faruq, Mohammad Siraj Mia and Mohammad Tauheed, and Organising Secretary Sayeed Sadullah Rumi.
Party General Secretary Abdul Malek Ratan presented the keynote paper at the press conference.
He said for democracy election is a must and to make the election a success there should be a healthy trend of democracy at every sphere of national life.
Ratan also stressed on consensus that all political parties will nominate honest and competent candidates and the next elected government must continue the on-going anti-corruption drive.
The speakers said the retreating tendency of the government is evident from the release of most of the corrupts convicted in lower courts on bail.
They said criminalisation of politics was possible as the previous political governments did not decentralise power from the grip of lawmakers and ministers to grab power of local government institutions.
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