BNP on Saturday said it considers Thursday’s Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election as a partial victory of the party’s movement for ensuring fair polls in the country.”I assess Narayanganj polls from a different angel. Through this election, we’ve achieved a partial victory in our long-time movement for fair election as the Election Commission was forced to at least ensure an apparent healthy election atmosphere. So, it’s undoubtedly a partial victory of our struggle,” said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
He further said, “We’ve already given our statement what happened inside polling stations. We’re looking into the issue and examining it further. We’ll come up with clearer information about it later.”Fakhrul made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting ailing Nagoril Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna at Mahmudur Rahman Manna at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).Manna was admitted to BSMMU on Wednesday, three days after his release from jail on bail.Earlier on Friday, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader also visited Manna at the BSMMU.Fakhrul stayed beside Manna for around half an hour and enquired about his health condition.About the Prime Minister’s comment that the people of Narayanganj have given BNP a befitting reply through their ballots, the BNP leader said it should not asses the national politics by a local body election results.“It’s not possible to get an idea about national polls results by a local government election as national issues doesn’t get priority in such polls,“ the BNP leader observed.He said the Narayanganj polls environment was apparently good until the end of voting. “We don’t know what happened after that (voting). There’re many questions about the polls. We’ll talk about it after our investigation.” As journalists wanted to know about the major reasons behind BNP candidate Shakhawat Hossain’s defeat in the polls, Fakhrul said, “We’re not thinking about the defeat of the candidate. We’re trying to find out what actually happened in the election.”
source:UNB
