Govt reshuffling administration to manipulate polls

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday accused the government of reshuffling police and public administration to manipulate the next national polls.

“They (govt) have already started reshuffling the police and civil administrations to hold another stage-managed election through vote rigging by controlling the state machinery,” Mirza Fakhrul said while speaking at a discussion, at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU). Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Forum arranged the programme at Dhaka Reporters, marking the Black Day of Newspapers.

The BNP leader said that the country’s people would thwart all the ‘blueprints’ of the government through a mass uprising in the days to come.

The BNP leader said that the government has also been regulating media outlets through the Digital Security Act. He said that the Awami League could not tolerate their opponents.

Earlier, the BNP Secretary General said in a press conference in the party chairperson’s Gulshan office that the government is reviving all the pending cases against the party men.

“The pending cases, which were lodged to harass BNP leaders and workers, are being revived. The government is also trying to give verdict in those cases hurriedly with an aim to remove BNP from the field. They are doing this with an aim to cling to power by holding a one-sided election,” Fakhrul said.

Fakhrul said, “Leaders and workers of Chhatra League attacked the supporters of Jubo Dal on their way to joining and returning from a rally in Chattogram on Wednesday. Police also detained few of our activists. What a situation it is…cases are being filed against us even after becoming the victims of their attacks.”

While replying to a question from a journalist, Fakhrul said it is Awami League whose only job is to create violence. “They will lodge cases against us after committing violence by themselves.” The BNP leader alleged that this government will continue to do whatever is needed to arrest and suppress their leaders and activists.

Condemning the attack on BNP’s Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon’s house in Narsingdi, Fakhrul said recently a false case has been filed against about 50 BNP leaders and workers, including Khokon and his wife Shireen Sultana. Not only the case but house of Khokon and BNP office also set on fire and vandalized in a conspiratorial way, said the BNP secretary general adding that this not a normal incident.