CEC warns against communal strife during polls

Staff Reporter :
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has warned that no violence or communal conflict will be tolerated during the elections in the country.

“Violence or communal conflict is never desired in the country.

It is inhuman and can never be civilised behaviour.

We will never tolerate such inhumanity,” the CEC told reporters after a view-exchange meeting with the leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council at the election building in the capital today (11 October).

Regarding the councils’ opinion the CEC said, “There were religious or communal conflicts or violence around elections in Bangladesh many times in the past.

So, they fear that there may be such communal conflict or violence in the upcoming elections as well.”