BANGLADESH NEWS
The main opposition BNP on Monday categorically said the Election Commission roadmap to hold the next parliament election under a political administration would be unacceptable to them and the people.
The party, however, welcomed the EC for deciding not to use electronic voting machine (EVM) in the next general election.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Sunday at a press briefing said the EC is not prepared to use EVM in the next election.
At the same briefing, Election Commissioner Abdul Mobarak said the next parliamentary polls will be held under the current constitutional provisions as the people have "accepted" the 15th Amendment to the constitution.
The 15th amendment scrapped the caretaker government system and introduced the provision of holding the parliamentary election within 90 days prior to dissolution of the parliament.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said it would be a grave mistake if EC prepares any roadmap to hold the election under a political administration.
“No election will be allowed to hold in the country without a non-party neutral government system. So people will not accept EC’s plan to hold election under political administration,” he said while talking to reporters.
He however said the EC took right decision regarding EVM system. “We are against EVM system since its inception as we believe EVM will not be able to reflect people’s verdict.”
He was talking to reporters after paying tribute at the grave of late president Ziaur Rahman along with the leaders of Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), a pro-BNP body.
Later the DAB, Netrokona district unit BNP leaders also placed a floral wreath at the grave of the party’s founder.
Soon after Alamgir’s departure from the area, two groups of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists engaged into a mild clash outside the graveyard that left few persons injured.
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