BNP shoots back at Mobarak, demands apology

Denouncing election commissioner M Abdul Mobarak’s remark that BNP has joined the upazila (UZ) polls after rubbing its nose in the dirt, the party on Monday asked him to withdraw his comment and apologise to the nation. “The acting chief election commissioner has made such remark involving BNP just to appease the Prime Minister… it can’t be the remark of an honest, neutral, independent and acceptable election commission,” said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He came up with his party’s reaction to Mobarak’s comment while addressing a briefing on the 5th phase of upazila polls at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, according to a news agency.