Police bosses partisan comments hint at another lopsided polls: BNP
Staff Reporter :
The partisan remarks by top police officials exposed that the government is going to hold another lopsided general election to be held at the end of this year, BNP alleged.
According to senior Joint Secretary General of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, “There was a meeting of high-level police officers on Saturday.
An officer’s statements in the meeting have gone viral on social media.
Hearing his speech, I could not differentiate whether he was a police officer or Shahbagh Awami League’s publicity secretary.”
Speaking at a human chain programme on Sunday, the BNP leader said when the senior police officers speak in the language of Hasan Mahmud (Information Minister) and the language of the Juba League and Chhatra League leaders, it gives an impression of how terrible the next election will be.
Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal’s Dhaka south city unit arranged the human chain programme in front of BNP’s Naya Paltan central office, demanding the release of the organisation’s joint convener Rejaul Karim Rana.
“People and voters won’t be able to join that election, let alone the participation of the opposition parties.
That election will be one-sided with novelty. A sign of that election process exposed by the partisan speeches given by senior police officers on Saturday,” Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said.
This is the partisan police administration, he said adding that this is how Sheikh Hasina is making a big blueprint of a one-sided election and holding again an election without a mandate (of people).
He also feared that, the current police administration would spread panic among voters to discourage themgoing to the polling stations and would arrest those who would go for electioneering in favour of the opposition parties during the election.
The BNP leader said that, the Awami government had got isolated from the entire world as only one or two countries were now with this regime.
According to Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, India is a democratic country and there are many conscientious journalists who are writing there for a fair election in Bangladesh.
“Maybe one or two journalists can be bought with hilsa fish, but not all of them,’ he added.
He slammed the Detective Branch of police for arresting Dhaka south city unit BNP acting member secretary Tanveer Ahmed Robin at Nightingale Crossing in the city in the early hours of Sunday and demanded his immediate release.
