Dhaka, Dec 31 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that they have been defeated through vote decoity by resorting to state terrorism. Terming the just concluded 11th parliamentary elections as the most tainted election in the country’s history, he demanded cancellation of the election and its results and holding re-election immediately under a non-partisan government.
“The election has been held by creating state terrorism using all the state machinery from the judiciary, administration and law enforcers through panic by creating a battle like situation. No such election is held ever in the country by using the state machinery in an unprecedented manner,” he claimed while was briefing reporters after a meeting of the party standing committee at chairperson’s political office in Gulshan last night.
He said they have rejected the entire election and its results which were held in an unprecedented terrorism, state terrorism and vote decoity. We think a fresh election should be held under non-partisan
government after cancelling the stigmatized election,” he said.
Mirza Alamgir said the election has lost its acceptance from earlier as hundreds of opposition leaders have been arrested after filling hundreds of factitious cases before and after the announcement of the
poll schedule.
“The government used the entire state machinery to obstruct the opposition and started a reign of terror creating panic across the country. Even opposition agents have been arrested by targeting them.
Vote rigging has started since the previous evening of the election day while RAB and police personnel assisted in it,” he alleged.
He further alleged that the polling centres have also been captured after 11:00am on the polling day while voters were coming out. The state forces assisted them by removing the opposition supporters.
The BNP secretary general reiterated that this election proved that boycotting of January 5, 2014, general election by them was an appropriate one.
The vote rigging was done a planned matter. The vote engineering has been done at the previous night depriving the people from franchising their rights. It was nothing accept creating panic, he observed.
He said there was no foreign observers during the elections as observers from the USA were not allowed to come to Bangladesh while the UK did not send observers. Thos who came, they are invited by the
government.
Asked whether the MP elects from the BNP would take an oath, Mirza Alamgir, who has been elected from Bogura-6 constituency, replied in the negative saying that they have rejected the elections and its
results.
He described the Chief Election Commissioner as the most partial person in the commission and said all of his activities have already been questioned.
The BNP leader said they would determine their next course of political after collecting all the necessary data and in consultation with partners of the the Jatiya Oikya Front and 20-party alliance.
He however hinted that they would carry out movement to press home to meterialise their demands to cancel the poll results along with taking legal measures.
The BNP leader also described different incidents of rigging votes and forcing out their agents from the polling centres.
Later a meeting of the 20-party alliance was held with BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan in the chair where they discussed and evaluated the debacle in the election and the next course of action.
Meanwhile, a meeting of steering committee of the Jatiya Oikya Front was held with Dr Kamal Hossain in the chair.
The meeting also discussed about the latest development in the political arena after the election and strategies to take the next course of action. – Staff Reporter
