Sofian Khan: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made allegations against the election commission and officers of the administration that they are prepared to set a new record of poll rigging in Gazipur city corporation mayoral polls on Tuesday. “There is no symptom or atmosphere that the Gazipur City Corporation elections scheduled to be held tomorrow will be held in a free and fair manner,” he told newsmen at the central Naya Paltan office of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). “The main barrier to a fair election in Gazipur is the police and law enforcement,” he said, further alleging that all the partisan policemen were deployed there.
Rizvi still expressed his optimism that the people would try to turn up at the polling stations and if the ballot is reasonably fair, the BNP’s candidates would come out successful.
The BNP leaders alleged that many BNP leaders and workers were in Gazipur and the police and other law enforcement people conducted raids on the houses of hundreds of party leaders and workers who would have been agents or campaigners in other forms.