Dr Kamal Hossain Jatiya Oikyafront Senior leader Dr Kamal Hossain called upon the Election Commission (EC) on Saturday to discharge their duties neutrally and independently without fear and favour to any political party.
"It is my appeal to the Election Commission that they should discharge their duties/ responsibilities neutrally and independently and without fear and loyalty to any political party," he told a press briefing.
The briefing was organised by Gonoforum at the National Press Club in the city on the prevailing political situation in the run-up to the upcoming general election on December 30.
"I call upon the Election Commission to hold a free, fair and neutral election," he said.
"It is our call to all election officials including returning, presiding and polling officers to discharge their duties neutrally by keeping themselves above party loyalty and without fear," he said.
"You (election officials) please create such an environment where the polling agents could work without fear during election," said the renowned jurist who is also president of the political party Gonoforum.
"I believe in free and fair election which is an inseparable part of the country's independence and sovereignty," he added.
He warned that if people could not exercise their votes during the general election, the independence and sovereignty of the country might be at stake.
"I call upon the countrymen to get united as happened during the time of the War of Liberation in 1971," he said.
"The general election on December 30 is very important for the nation and the country just before the golden jubilee of the country's independence in 2021," he said.
"I hope we will have a good election through the joint efforts of the Election Commission, political parties and candidates participating in the election," said Dr Kamal Hossain.
He called upon the voters to keep vigil on the polling centres.
He said only casting the vote on the polling day is not the end of the people's responsibilities. The people must participate actively in ruling the country.
Terming the countrymen the real owners of the country, the Gonoforum president said, "If the owners don't elect their right representatives/candidates in the election, then they will be deprived. And keep in mind that responsibility… everybody must come forward".
He called upon the people to resist any move designed to thwart a free and fair election.
He requested the voters to go to polling centres in a body soon after start of voting in the morning.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, president of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League Bangabir Kader Siddique, executive present of Gonoforum Advocate Subrata Chowdhury and its general secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, founder of Gonoshasthya Kendra Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, convener of Nagorik Oikya Mahmudur Rahman Manna and economist Reza Kibria, among others, were present.
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