Dhaka, Feb 06 – Leaders of opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front on Wednesday demanded of the ruling Awami League-led government to announce a new schedule to hold a fresh election under a non-partisan govt.
The Oikyafront taking people with them will build resistance against the government if it does not heed to their demand and announce a new schedule for a fresh election, they warned while speaking at a human chain programme wearing black badges in the city.
The leaders claimed that
They demanded the release of BNP’s jailed chairperson Khaleda Zia and other Oikyafront leaders who have been poured in prison implicating them in false cases.
The Oikyafront, where the BNP is the major partner, organized the hour-long human chain first of its outdoor programme following the 11th parliamentary election in front of Jatiya Press Club from
Top leaders of the five-party alliance
‘There was no election on December 30. Country’s democracy was killed,
He said 117.3 per cent votes along with those were beyond the poll process has been cast in the last election and none has heard such an incident of deceiving the voters.
The JSD chief alleged that
Rab said the unity of Oikyafront remained intake and explained that man of its top leaders could not attend the programme as many of them are sick and some other went abroad for treatment.
Terming the December 30 election farcical one, BNP leader Dr Abdul Moyeen
The December 30 election was farcical one and it proved that no election can be held in a free and fair manner under a political government. The government has to take immediate measure to hold a fair election under a neutral government, he said.
The BNP leader also claimed that the
He also accused the government of committing mega corruption in the name of
Zafrullah Chowdhury
He alleged that police officers are being awarded for their controversial roles in favour of the government during the elections.
Ganoforum executive president Subrata Chowdhury said the government’s second ear was cut in the last election while it lost its first year through holding the lopsided January 5
He said the government should be awarded
Presided over by BNP leader Abdus Salam, the human chain programme also addressed, among others, by JSD general secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, BNP leaders Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Selima Rahman, Imran Saleh Prince and Abdus Salam Azad.
The AL-led Grand Alliance swept the 11th parliamentary election with 289 seats, out of 300, and formed the government. The BNP and its partner Ganaforum got only eight seats and rejected the poll results, alleging ‘vote engineering.’
The Oikyafront had rejected the poll results alleging ‘vote engineering’ and decided that its winning candidates would not take oath as MPs. The Oikyafront leaders also refrained from joining Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s greetings-exchange meeting over tea on February 2.
It would hold a mass hearing of its candidates in the city on February 24 over the December 30 elections. – Staff Reporter