BNP rejects KCC polls results

Senior Correspondent: BNP demanded resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda rejecting the election results of Khulna City Corporation (KCC).

BNP's Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the demand while addressing a press conference at party’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital on Wednesday.

“I, on behalf of our party, reject the results of Khulna City Corporation election,” Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told the press conference.

The BNP leader alleged that the current ‘illegal’ government has exercised its ‘illegal’ power to snatch people’s voting rights in Tuesday’s polls.

“It can’t be a healthy election system the way supporters of paddy sheaf (BNP’s election symbol), were subjected to harassment and obstruction at polling stations. The supporters of boat (AL’s election symbol) established their limitless supremacy,” Rizvi observed.

He alleged that the ruling party men gave fake votes dividing different groups at many polling stations while the presiding officers helped them cast vote unilaterally and stuff ballots.

He also questioned how over 65 per cent votes were cast in the election while there was a very thin presence of voters.

“We think the turnout of voters could be less than 30 per cent. Voters couldn’t go to most polling stations due to attacks and obstruction by ruling party cadres,” Rizvi added.

Rizvi also alleged that the Election Commission neither has any good intention nor ability to hold a fair and neutral election. “That’s why people witnessed an unprecedented festival of vote rigging in the KCC polls.”

Awami League’s mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khalek won the KCC polls with a big margin defeating BNP’s Nazrul Islam Manju.


risingbd/Dhaka/May 16, 2018/Reza/AI