Partisan police, admin officials plotting for AL's win: BNP

BNP alleged on Saturday that 'partisan' and 'controversial' officials of the police and civil administrations are regularly holding 'clandestine' meetings to ensure Awami League candidates' win in the upcoming general election, reports UNB.

"The officials of the police and civil administrations are conspiring to put unpopular Awami League in power again," said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

He came up with the allegation at a press conference at BNP's Nayapaltan central office.

The BNP leader said they came to know that police and admin officials held a secret meeting on Tuesday last at the Officer's Club conference room for two and a half hours and reviewed the ruling party's election engineering plan.

Rizvi claimed that Prime Minister's office secretary Sazzadul Hasan, pubic administration secretary Faiz Ahmed, EC secretary Helaluddin Ahmed, water resources secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, civil aviation secretary Mohibul Haque, Dhaka divisional commissioner and Dhaka city returning officer Ali Azam, PM's APS-1 Kazi Nishat Rasul and officials of police, Rab, DMP and Counter-terrorism unit were present at the meeting.