Resist any farcical election: B Chy

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury urged on Tuesday the common people and workers to get ready to resist the government's any move to hold a 'farcical national election', reports UNB.

"The way government is behaving we can't expect a fair election. The workers, including the RMG ones, and common people must put up a strong resistance together so that the government can't hold any farcical election," he said.

B Chowdhury, also a former President, made the call while addressing a workers' gathering arranged by BDB's labour wing at its Kuril Biswa Road office, marking May Day.

He alleged that the current government had promised to arrange a fresh election after holding an 'unlawful' election with 153 MPs elected unopposed in 2014. "But, they didn't live up to their commitment. It's an absurd matter to join an election under a regime which breached its promise."

The BDB chief said all must come forward to create a strong resistance against the current 'undemocratic and autocratic' government to 'restore' people's democratic rights.