Charging the government with widespread vote fraud and violence in the third phase of the upazila polls, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Sunday they will announce action programmes soon to register their protests it in this connection, reports UNB.
"The government did what we had apprehended…ruling party men captured polling stations and stuffed ballot boxes in the third phase of the upazila polls," he said.
Rizvi was talking to reporters after attending a milad mahfil held on the party's Nayapaltan Central office ground floor marking the third death anniversary of former BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain.
The BNP leader alleged that the ministers, MPs, and even their personal secretaries (PSs) have influenced the upazila elections in a bid to ensure the victory of the ruling party-backed candidates.
Rejecting the EC's demand that the election was free and fair Rizvi said, "The Election Commission is completely subservient government. The country's people have seen how the ruling party cadres rigged votes, captured polling stations, and unleashed violence but the Election Commission made comments contrary to the facts."
Condemning the 'heinous' role of the Election Commission, Rizvi said they will announce the strong protest programmes against the vote rigging and violence unleashed by ruling party men.
Another report adds: A court in the city sent former Health and Family Welfare Minister and BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain to jail on Sunday in a case filed for siphoning off money abroad.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order when police produced him before his court after completion of his three-day remand.
Earlier on Thursday, another Dhaka court placed the BNP stalwart on the three-day remand in the case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on February 6.
According to the case statement, Mosharraf Hossain laundered 0.804 million British pounds (equivalent to Tk 95.4 million) to the United Kingdom when he was Health and Family Welfare Minister during the 2001-2006 tenure of the BNP government.
