The BNP has urged the government to stop the process to organise the next general elections without taking the Opposition in.
It has warned of ‘tougher’ agitation programmes if the call goes unheeded.
The Election Commission (EC) is going ahead with preparations to hold the Jan 5 parliamentary polls amid the BNP-led Opposition alliance’s
shutdowns and blockade programmes.
Over 150 constituencies, out of 300, have single candidates and they are winning uncontested.
In a statement on Sunday, BNP’s spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said declaring 154 candidates uncontested winner by the
“puppet EC” was “an unprecedented shameful act”.
“Stop the farcical election process and cancel the so-called results in the uncontested (seats) immediately,” he said.
The Opposition has been demanding a non-party government to supervise the polls but the ruling Awami League-led coalition insists the Sheikh Hasina-led ‘multi-party’ cabinet would oversee the elections. –bdnews24.com
