Khaleda wants army for Gazipur polls
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday demanded that the army be deployed during the upcoming Gazipur City Corporation election.
Talking to the party leaders and activists during Sylhet City Corporation mayor-elect Ariful Haque Chowdhury's visit to Khaleda's Gulshan office last night, she said the elections to four city corporations held earlier were not fair and transparent.
If the elections were held fairly and neutrally, the ruling Awami League-backed candidates in the four city corporations would have had lost their deposits, Khaleda claimed.
She urged the government to make arrangements for holding the next parliamentary elections under the caretaker government system.
Meanwhile, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday said the opposition would go for tougher programmes to oust the government if it resorted to “election engineering” in the Gazipur election.
He alleged that the ruling party activists were violating the electoral code of conduct.
Speaking as the chief guest of a discussion programme at the Jatiya Press Club, he said Gazipur election was a local government polls and as per rule, ministers could not take part in the campaign. He said a lot of ministers had been taking part in the campaign violating the rules.
He accused the ruling party leaders of mounting pressure on government officers.
In the programme, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, BNP standing committee member, said the government had been trying to make the parliament inactive as per the suggestions of its "foreign friends".
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