Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that his party would not submit any name to the search committee formed to propose names to the president to appoint the chief election commissioner and the other election commissioners.
The BNP leader’s announcement came a day after the search committee sought names of probable candidates from registered political parties.
Talking to reporters at the BRB hospital in Dhaka after visiting the party’s ailing leader Abdul Aziz of Natore, the BNP leader said that the Awami League government had been doing everything to remain in power and that they had now made law going against the will of the people of the country.
He said that the search committee members were mostly linked to Awami League and it would propose names to form another ‘Huda commission’ to keep the Awami League in power.
Fakhrul said that they did not participate in the dialogue with the president as they knew that ‘such type of search committee’ would be formed.
He said that the search committee was now working to form another Huda Commission and, that is why, they had neither any interest about the search committee nor any expectation to it.
He demanded to hold the national elections under a neutral government and said that the people of the country would not allow any election under the Awami League government.
