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‘Election is challenge for us, don’t want violence’

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Published: 14:50, 16 December 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
‘Election is challenge for us, don’t want violence’

Staff Correspondent: BNP Vice-chairman Selima Rahman said that the upcoming 11th general election is a challenge for us. We want to remain in the field and do not expect any violence. We have yet not stepped into violence. Nothing to say after that.

In reply to queries, she said this to the reporters on Sunday after handing over a complaint to EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed at his office in the city's Nirbachan Bhaban.

The BNP leader alleged that police were obstructing BNP candidates from carrying out electioneering across the country defying Election Commission's directives.

"Police are hindering our election campaign. They’re not following the Election Commission's directives," she added.

Selima Rahman said no BNP candidate can conduct electioneering in Dhaka. "Police act like our rivals. They don't allow us to carry out our campaign. The government wants to arrange a 2014-like lopsided election."

In the written complaint, BNP alleged that the ruling party men and police were carrying out attacks on the candidates and activists of Jatiya Oikyafront, BNP-led 20-party alliance and BNP while wholesale arrest continued.

Attack by the ruling party men and police, arrest and filing of cases against them have been on the rise since the official campaign began, it claimed.

The party also cited the attacks on its candidates, including Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon in Noakhali and Mirza Abbas in Dhaka, in several places.

risingbd/Dhaka/December 16, 2018/Mamun Khan/AKA
 

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