AL holding one-sided seat-sharing polls: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Friday accused the government of preparing to hold lopsided seat-sharing polls on January 7 shamelessly.

Several leaders in different occasions remarked the same about the next general election.

BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan in discussion at the National Press Club said that the government is trying to cling to power through lopsided polls.

He said no one can say that the government would sustain five days after the lopsided polls using bullet or canon against the people.
Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) organised the meeting on the occasion of the Vectory Day.

Besides, BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, “The government is orchestrating a drama of militancy, eyeing the 7 January national election to deprive people from their right to vote.”

Rizvi said it at a virtual press briefing calling upon democratic countries to raise their voices against the ‘Awami League’s one-sided dummy election,’ urging them not to pay heed to Sheikh Hasina’s propaganda about militancy.

“Come forward to establish humanity in the country. The people of Bangladesh want democracy,” said Rizvi.

He said, “The administration is busy contemplating a strategy on how to conduct the election so that the countrymen cannot realise that it was a stage managed election.”

“The mafia gang is busy for plotting a strategy to hike prices of essential capitalising on the crisis situation, while the people of the country are struggling to survive,” said the BNP leader.

Besides, Rizvi has alleged that more than 80 BNP leaders and activists were arrested across the country in the last 24 hours.

Apart from the arrests, four cases were filed against 436 BNP members during this period, said Rizvi during a virtual conference on Friday.

Additionally, one person was killed, and 10 others were injured in the last 24 hours, Rizvi added.

Apart from these, BNP Joint-Secretary General Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Friday said that the Awami League government was holding a unilateral general election of seat sharing as it has no public support.

Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader also said that the media outlets were running news about how the government was shamelessly walking on the path of one-sided polls by distributing seats before the voting.

A faction of Gono Odhikar Parishad, led by Reza Kibria, organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity, marking the Victory Day.