Govt cheating people through illegal polls: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP- on Tuesday decided to continue their mass contact and leaflets distributing programme instead of tougher actions like blockade and hartal till January 7 elections.

The BNP also alleged that the Awami League government is involved in cheating with the people through the illegal general election slated for January 7.

“Government is cheating the people by illegal national election they are trying to conduct on January 7.

They are trying to deprive all the people through such an illegal polls. The people have to foil the illegal election,” BNP Senior Joint-General Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Tuesday while distributing leaflets among the people in Gulshan area urging them to boycott the ‘lopsided’ election.

The BNP leader called the people and the party men to prevent the government’s effort of conducting one-sided polls.
Meanwhile at a virtual press briefing, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed that more than one lakh BNP leaders and activists have been accused in 1,124 cases filed by the police over political programmes enforced by the opposition party since 28 July.

Besides, 24,541 leaders and activists of BNP have been arrested and 27 people, including journalists, have been killed during the period, Rizvi said during the press conference.

The jail authorities cancelled BNP Joint-Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal’s division facilities inside the prison.

“Besides, the DB police went to the residences of Habibur Rahman Habu, former hospitality affairs secretary of Fatulla BNP under Narayanganj district, and Muhammad Ali Ratan, leader of Fatulla Jubo Dal, and behaved indecently with their family members,” Rizvi said.

“The DB police also threatened to burn Mohammad Ali Ratan’s hands and legs on charge of torch procession,” he said.