Voterless polls won’t sustain AL govt: BNP
Staff Reporter :
BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday said the Awami League government will not sustain if it assumes power again through a voter less election.
“If this government takes power again through a farce election will not sustain. They must be ousted soon after the so called polls in the face of people’s resistance,” Nazrul Islam Khan said while talking to journalists during distributing leaflets among the people in Motijheel and Dilkusha areas in the capital. The BNP leader took part in the leaflets distribution as part of the party’s non-cooperation movement against this government.
“It does not matter to whom the voters will give vote as all the votes will be counted in favour of Awami League as the election is only favouring this government. The people of the country have no interest in casting their votes in this meaningless election slated for January 7,” Nazrul Islam said.
“If there is public support for the ‘lopsided election, then why the councillors have been given instructions by the police to bring voters to the polling stations,” Nazrul Islam Khan questioned.
“People are not interested in voting as they know it’s a meaningless election… It’s not a vote and not an election,” he said.
He called upon the voters not to go to the polling stations under any situation on January 7. “Don’t cooperate with the regime which is playing a game with the lives and livelihoods of the people,” he said.
The BNP leader said why the dummy candidates are needed to bring people to the polling stations.
“Why are beneficiaries of the government’s different programmes and facilities threatened that their cards will be cancelled if they don’t cast their votes? Why have you used police to instruct the councillors to bring people to the polling stations?
The BNP leader also questioned the justification of holding such an unacceptable election by spending several thousand crores of Taka when the country’s economy and financial institutions are in dire straits.
“We urge the government to stop this expenditure on this illegal election…it can’t be called an election where all candidates belong to Awami League. We don’t want such an election,” he said.
The BNP leader said their party wants such an election where the people can freely exercise their right to vote and elect their representatives.
Apart from these, BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi accused the government of creating a panic prone country in the name of vote festival.
“The people are become panicked because the ruling Awami League is forcing them to join their election campaigns and processions across the country,” Rizvi said at a virtual press briefing.
