Menon for reviving 'dignity of elections'

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FE Team | Published: March 05, 2019 00:15:19

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Though he claimed that the 11th national election was held successfully, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon on Sunday put emphasis on bringing the election back to its own dignity, reports UNB.
"All will have to be alert so that the success which the 14-party alliance achieved waging a movement under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina for ensuring neutral election and people's voting rights are not lost in this way.
The election will have to be brought back to its due dignity," he told parliament.
Menon, also former social welfare minister, made the remarks joining the general discussion on the thanksgiving motion on the President's speech in the House.
He, however, said, "The last parliamentary elections were held in a successful manner, but the experiences of that election are not good in all cases."
BNP and Jamaat joined the election aiming to spoil it and they applied strategies to make the election at least questionable in the national and international arenas, he said.
Menon said the BNP-Jamaat alliance fielded no active candidate in the election due to Tarique Rahman's nomination trade.
"Those fielded had not been in the electoral race truly. They're talking about various election irregularities, but can't place any fact and evidence (in favour of their claims)," he said.
Talking about the countrywide upazila elections, the Workers Party president demanded that the polls must be held in a free and neutral manner.