Hasina main obstacle to free election: Rizvi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the main barrier to holding the next general election in a free, fair and inclusive manner, BNP said yesterday.
“The only way of conducting a fair and inclusive election is resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She is the main obstacle...,” BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said during a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office.
Hasina has recently said she would extend her all-out assistance to the Election Commission to hold the election in a free, fair and credible manner.
Referring to the assurance, Rizvi said, “Prime minister's assistance means a blatant surrender of the Election Commission, and it's ludicrous.”
Reiterating the party's demand of a non-party caretaker government overseeing the upcoming national polls, he described Hasina as an “extremely powerful” prime minister as the country's “judiciary and executive are under her control”.
He also alleged that the government is desperate to keep BNP away from the election by implicating BNP men in politically motivated and false cases.
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