Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia has opposed the Election Commission’s move to amend the electoral code of conducts allowing the Prime Minister and her Cabinet colleagues to campaign in the general elections.
The BNP Chairperson also reiterated that no election would be allowed under a partisan government.
”We don’t accept that Cabinet decision,” she told an iftar gathering held in Parliament complex on Tuesday.
“The next election will be held under a non-partisan government, not under this Hasina-led government,” she asserted.
The Election Commission Secretariat recently drafted the electoral code of conducts and forwarded it to the Commission. There is, however, no news of whether Monday’s Cabinet meeting discussed it.
The parliamentary elections will be held under the current government since the Awami League government made amendments to the Constitution.
The EC had no other option than to change the regulations as the ministers of the elected government will contest in the polls.
The Awami League is in favour of overseeing the election while being in power but the BNP has been saying that no election under them can be fair.
Jamaat-e-Islami, a key partner of the BNP, is also against the EC move to bring the changes to the regulations.
The party in a statement on Tuesday said the EC lost its neutrality by putting forward such proposal. “It has proved that it is just a puppet of the government.”
Speaking at Tuesday’s programme, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said, “The incumbent Prime Minister can go anywhere in the country using the designation during the election.”
“No election can be free and fair if the situation is like this,” he added.
Source: Bd news24
