Hasina herself main obstacle to fair polls: BNP

Hasina herself main obstacle to fair polls: BNP

Dhaka, Sep 13 (Just News): BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said prime minister Sheikh Hasina herself is the main obstacle to holding a fair election.

“The prime minister’s statement that she will cooperate with the election commission for holding a fair election made many laugh. She herself is the main obstacle to holding a fair election,” Rizvi told newsmen at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Thursday.

The prime minister cooperating with the election commission means nothing but the EC’s surrender before her, he observed.

The only way to hold an impartial election is the resignation of the prime minister, and the election has to be held under a non-party government, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader pointed out.

Terming the PM incredibly powerful, he said everything, including law and justice, is under her jurisdiction.

Rizvi alleged that raids, arrests, police repression and false cases are being carried out at the dictate of the prime minister and she is sending opposition leaders and activists to jails and gagging the media to cling to power.

The BNP leader said the law enforcement have become reckless to suppress the BNP men ahead of the next election.

The life of people has become unbearable for false cases and arrest of men from peaceful programmes, he said.

Rizvi also demanded immediate withdrawal of the false cases against the BNP leaders and activists.

(Justnews/ys/1720hr)