Farcial Election not acceptable to BNP: Khaleda
Daily Star:
Election not acceptable to BNP: Khaleda
Election not acceptable
to BNP: Khaleda [Daily Star report]
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Tuesday midnight parliament election
was not acceptable to the BNP as it was held as per a blueprint designed before
the polls. After a meeting of the BNP standing committee
at her Gulshan office, Khaleda said, "The blueprint we were talking about
came into reality through the election results." Khaleda said it is
noticeable that there are some leaders who have been getting elected time and
again in the past with big margins are on the list of losers. "It's
noticeable that 45 to 50 percent votes were cast by 12 noon and thereafter most of the polling centers
were seen empty. But it was shown that about 90 percent votes were cast at those
centers," she said, adding it was never ever seen such 'grand forgery of
votes' in the past. In her apparent feet of anger, the former
prime minister ridiculed the Chief Election
Commissioner for holding such a "staged-managed election". She
claimed that they have evidence too about how rigging took place. Khaleda said
she herself visited many centers in the capital and found some centers without election officials. On her query, those who were
present said that those officials went for saying prayers or lunch. Then she
told them that there is no break for prayer or lunch. Then when she asked
election officials about allegations from her party agents, the officials
replied that they had rectified those. Khaleda said, "Through the
implementation of this blueprint to open a way to reintroduce neo-Baksal in the
country." The BNP chief said, "I would like to say with regret that
despite our all efforts to switch over to democracy, the Election Commission has proved that this election has
no acceptability by announcing the pre-fixed results of the elections." "Therefore,
this election has not reflected the will of the people," Khaleda said,
adding, "Under this circumstances, this farcical election is not
acceptable to BNP." Khaleda refused to take questions from journalists
saying that it is their primary observation about the elections. She said all
her party candidates did not yet return to Dhaka and after receiving all information
from them, "We'll let you know." BNP standing
committee members Khandaker Delwar Hossain,
M Saifur Rahman, Chowdhury Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui,
Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Advocate
Khandaker Mahbub Uddin, M Shamsul Islam and Dr.
R. A Gani were present at the meeting that lasted for about four and a half
hours from 7 pm AL,
allies take 262 seats 4-party manages 32
The Awami League-led grand alliance secured 262 seats in
Monday's Election:
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