Both the rival camps, Awami League and BNP, are confident that their
favourites will win today’s vote battle in four city corporations.
Senior leaders of the camps at the last moment, however, expressed differences about deployment of army for making the polls free and neutral.
The BNP camp is for army deployment as it thinks the local administration may back the ruling party-blessed candidates.
“Besides, we apprehend local ruling party-backed goons will use fear as a tool to gain votes for their candidates which will deteriorate law and order,” BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy told yesterday.
Another BNP leader Selima Rahman, who had been campaigning for her party favourite in Barisal, said law enforcement agencies, including the Rapid Action Battalion, had been arresting their activists in Barisal city creating panic in the opposition camp.
But ruling party lawmaker Amir Hossain Amu, who campaigned for Awami League-backed candidate in Barisal, rejected outright the BNP allegation.
He said, “The law and order is well under control there, as a large number of Rab personnel and border guards have been deployed.”
Since yesterday, no outsiders or even no motorbikes had been seen in the voting areas, he said, adding that this was why army deployment was not necessary.
On Thursday, lawmakers of the treasury and the opposition bench locked horn in the House over deployment of the army in city corporation areas during the polls.
Two BNP MPs sought the Speaker’s intervention to this end while a ruling party MP claimed that fearing definite defeat of their favourites, the opposition was raising allegations against the government.
Senior leaders of the camps at the last moment, however, expressed differences about deployment of army for making the polls free and neutral.
The BNP camp is for army deployment as it thinks the local administration may back the ruling party-blessed candidates.
“Besides, we apprehend local ruling party-backed goons will use fear as a tool to gain votes for their candidates which will deteriorate law and order,” BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy told yesterday.
Another BNP leader Selima Rahman, who had been campaigning for her party favourite in Barisal, said law enforcement agencies, including the Rapid Action Battalion, had been arresting their activists in Barisal city creating panic in the opposition camp.
But ruling party lawmaker Amir Hossain Amu, who campaigned for Awami League-backed candidate in Barisal, rejected outright the BNP allegation.
He said, “The law and order is well under control there, as a large number of Rab personnel and border guards have been deployed.”
Since yesterday, no outsiders or even no motorbikes had been seen in the voting areas, he said, adding that this was why army deployment was not necessary.
On Thursday, lawmakers of the treasury and the opposition bench locked horn in the House over deployment of the army in city corporation areas during the polls.
Two BNP MPs sought the Speaker’s intervention to this end while a ruling party MP claimed that fearing definite defeat of their favourites, the opposition was raising allegations against the government.
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