DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday (May 25) asked the chief election commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad to resign.
A four-member BNP delegation, led by its outgoing central committee vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman, met the CEC and made the call.
Terming CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad as “submissive to incumbent government”, Noman said they made the call as “free and fair polls at any level is impossible under the current commission”.
Noman was talking to journalists after the meeting with the CEC in the afternoon.
He alleged many cadres of ruling party’s candidates did not let the agents of BNP candidates to enter the polling centers.
“Besides, we informed the CEC that the ruling party candidates cast fake votes with the assistance of local administration,” he added.
“We asked him to scrap the polls in nine municipalities and re-organize the elections at those places,” he added.
Noman also said, “CEC, in his usual assuring tone, said he would take actions after analyzing reports from the local authorities”.
The BNP leader, however, said closing one or two centers is not enough when a candidate wins from fake votes in every polling center.
BDST: 1811 HRS, MAY 25, 2016
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