AL for fair results, BNP alleges violation of electoral code

Awami League yesterday requested the Election Commission to declare the results of tomorrow's general elections fairly, while BNP alleged that many officials of the administration are violating the electoral code of conduct at different places of the country.
Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda, however, assured the delegations of both the major party alliances of looking into the matters.
Coming out after meeting with the EC, HT Imam, co-chairman of the AL election steering committee, said, “We saw in the 2001 election that results were going missing on way to the EC from the returning officers and later those were tampered.”
They requested the EC so that such incident cannot recur this time, he added.
BNP Joint Secretary General and party spokesman Nazrul Islam Khan told reporters that they have complained to the EC that rivals of some four-party alliance candidates are issuing threats to make attempts on their life.
He also blamed their opponents of tarnishing images of four-party candidates by printing indecent posters and officials of the administration are giving different instructions after calling union parishad chairmen to their offices.
“We got no results despite we informed the returning officers and local administration of the matters as they are also working in favour of a particular party,” Nazrul alleged.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader barrister Abdur Razzak as a delegation member said they have also drawn the EC's attention to a poster published in the Weekly 2000 on its December 26 issue which is violation of code of conduct. He alleged that private satellite channel ETV also telecast similar programme, while Sector Commanders' Forum is also continuing to violate the electoral code of conduct.
Solaiman Chowdhury who came in the limelight for his controversial role in the 2001 election when he was the deputy commissioner of Feni was also with the BNP delegation. He was later made establishment secretary after getting quick promotion from the post of a deputy secretary.