The ruling Awami League on Friday accused the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of hatching a conspiracy to make the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls controversial at any cost. “We are very much shocked as the BNP leaders are engaged in spreading falsehood regarding the GCC polls to make it controversial,” Tofail Ahmed, AL advisory council member, said this while addressing a press conference at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi political office in the city. “Whatever conspiracies BNP hatches, people will not vote for their candidate as they (people) knew well about those who wanted to make the country ‘a failed state’ and wanted the Army’s role to be contentious,” he added. The senior AL leader said that the GCC elections would be held in a free, fair and credible manner. At the same time, he also hoped that their party backed mayoral
candidate Advocate Azmat Ullah Khan would win in the polls. Claiming that Gazipur was the second vote bank for Awami League after Gopalganj, the AL leader alleged that BNP, knowing their party backed candidate would not win in the elections, was hatching conspiracy to make the polls controversial.
“BNP backed candidate MA Mannan will be defeated in the GCC polls as he is a corrupt person. People will not vote him,” he said.
Referring to BNP’s demand for Army deployment in the GCC polls, he said, if the election commission wanted to deploy Army, the government would consider it.
He also said, over 6000 local government and by-elections were held in a free, fair and credible manner under the supervision of the AL-led government and none could raise any question against those polls.
The party senior leader reiterated that the next general election would be held in line with the country’s constitution.
About the opposition’s demand for caretaker government system, the AL leader alleged that it was BNP who destroyed the concept of the system by forming loyal election commission during its tenure.
-With The Independent input
