Opposition BNP on Saturday called upon the government officials and
employees to perform their duties neutrally and disobey the orders of
any party or individual to involve in the unilateral election.
“We urge all the officials and employees of the republic to work
impartially as the people of the country its servants. You don’t be
used as the tool of any party or individual to fulfil its illegal
desire,” said BNP joint secretary general Salauddin Ahmed.
In a video message from his hideout, the BNP spokesman also urged the
Election Commission to postpone ‘the lopsided and farcical’ polls.
Mentioning that Awami League wants to hold a farcical election as it
fears fair polls, he requested the country’s people to get united to
ensure the fall of the current regime.
Salauddin said the Commonwealth, the EU, the UN and other important
states and organisations have not yet decided to send election
observers to monitor the government’s one-sided polls in Bangladesh.
“Even maximum election monitoring bodies and organisations registered
with the Election Commission did not apply for observing the election.
Besides, majority of the teachers expressed their unwillingness to
discharge duties in the lopsided election.”
Earlier in the morning, the BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced its
fresh spell of 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country
at 6am demanding that the next national election be arranged under a
non-party government, which is progressing amid stray incidents of
violence.
The 72-hour blockade will end after 6am on Tuesday if it was not
extended further unlike the previous two spells.
Meanwhile, in a statement on the first of the 72-hour blockade,
Salauddin, on behalf of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, thanked the
country’s people for what he said spontaneously observing the blockade
programme.
He claimed that at least 217 opposition leaders and activists were
injured in clashes with police and ruling party activists at different
parts of the country while 326 arrested by law enforcers.
The BNP spokesman demanded the government release all the arrested
opposition leaders and withdraw the ‘false’ cases filed against them.
-UNB
