It was the BNP, which alleged of not getting a level playing field for candidates, it endorsed for the April 28 city polls, reports bdnews24.com.
But now Awami League-backed mayor aspirant Sayeed Khokon said he is denied that.
The Dhaka South aspirant Sayeed Khokon said her leader Sheikh Hasina cannot campaign for him being the prime minister, but BNP chief Khaleda Zia is campaigning for candidates backed by her party.
"In that sense, it is me who's not getting a level playing field," Khokon said while speaking to the news agency.
The BNP, which relaxed its anti-government agitations in the wake of the city polls, had been alleging of not getting a level playing field from the very beginning.
They fear that the polls for City Corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be less than credible.
Khokon's prime contender senior BNP leader Mirza Abbas is yet to campaign as he has failed to secure bail in several cases against him.
His wife Afroza Abbas is campaigning on his behalf and complains of a lack of level playing field.
Khokon, however, sees the electoral process as an appropriate one. "The election commission is doing a great job. No major issues have cropped up during such a big election, that's laudable."
In an interview at old Dhaka's Nazirbazar, Khokon spoke about his father former Dhaka Mayor Mohammad Hanif and his early days of being a rookie in politics.
Hanif had defeated Mirza Abbas in the Dhaka city polls of 1993 and after almost 22 years later, his son is facing the same contender.
"My prime contender has been a minister and mayor, but could not do any development and the people of Dhaka know it," said Khokon, who entered politics in 1987 as a Ward Awami League unit's legal affairs secretary.
He is now the organising secretary of the ruling party's metropolitan chapter.
"It happened slowly, even father hadn't noticed it. I became a member of the metropolitan unit in 1999 and in 2004 became the organising secretary."
Asked of his public role before running for mayor, Khokon said he had successfully led a movement in 2005 against a hike of holding taxes, when BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka was the mayor.
Khokon says if elected, his key priority will be the traffic problem in the capital.
His other priorities are ensuring playgrounds, stopping footpath encroachment by street vendors and waste management.
