The upazilas are Sadar in Meherpur, Sadar and Shailakupa in Jhenidah, Sonatola in Bogra, Bakerganj and Gouranadi in Barisal, Sujanagar in Pabna and Kazipur in Sirajganj.
Addressing a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the local units of the party separately announced the shutdown programmes.
Narrating the various incidents of “election fraud” by the ruling party ‘cadres’, the BNP leader said Awami League men captured many centres forcing out BNP-backed candidates’ polling agents and attacked the opposition leaders and activists in different upazilas during the election.
“Still, we didn’t get information from all upazilas. As per the information we’ve received, it gives us an impression that it’s a bizarre polls in which ruling party men are using their clout and capturing polling centres and attacking BNP leaders and activists,” he said.
He claimed that the ruling party men forced out their party-backed candidates’ agents and captured many polling centres in Bhedarganj upazila in Shariatpur, Nababganj in Dhaka, Doulatpur and Shibalaya in Manikganj, Sonatala in Bogra, Sadar and Kazipur in Sirajganj, Gobindaganj in Gaibandha, Bajitpur in Kishoreganj, Gouranadi and Bakerganj in Barisal, Dighulia in Khulna, Sadar in Meherpur, Shoilakupa and Sadar in Jhenidah, Sarishabari in Jamalpur, Lalmohan in Bhola, Goshairhat in Shariatpur and Sujanagar Pabna.
Rizvi denounced the ruling party men’s action to manipulate the first phase of the upazila election.
Source: UNB Connect
