DHAKA: BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) demanded to Election Commission for deploying Army in upcoming city corporations’ elections.

A BNP delegation, led by party’s standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah and Barrister Jamir Uddin Sircar, placed the demand in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakib Uddin at EC secretariat Wednesday.

Coming out from the meeting, Hannan Shah said, “We demanded to unlock our Nayapaltan central office and not to harass our aspirants.”

“EC responded positively assuring our demands to take in consider,” he added.

BDST: 1746 HRS, APR 01, 2015