BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with pro-BNP professionals tonight to discuss the country’s latest political situation and work out strategies for the December 30 municipality polls.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 8:30pm at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office with Khaleda in the chair, BNP Assistant Office Secretary Shamimur Rahman Shamim told UNB yesterday.
He said the BNP chief is likely to discuss the country’s current situation and various issues relating to the municipal polls with the professionals.
Party insiders said Khaleda will seek opinions of the professionals as to how the party will tackle the situation if the ruling party men try to rig the polling and obstruct voters, intimidate the party’s polling agents and capture polling stations.
The three-time former premier will also call upon them to actively work for her party’s candidates and strongly carry out electioneering in their respective areas.
Khaleda last week had separate meetings with her party’s Standing Committee members and senior leaders, and devised strategies for the municipality polls and formed various committees.
Shamim said a secretary-general-level meeting of the BNP-led 20-party alliance will also be held at the same venue at 11am. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will preside over the meeting.
Meanwhile, at another event senior BNP leader Abdullah Al Noman alleged that the ruling party men got a freehand to violate the election code of conduct in the polls as the EC has become a “government puppet.”
“A so-called municipality election is going to be held in the country. We are regularly coming up with the allegations of polls violation by the ruling party men. But, the EC is reluctant about that as it has become a puppet of the government,” he told a programme organised at the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh to mark the Victory Day.
He said: “We can surely say the municipal election will not be free and fair and people’s verdict will not be reflected through it. The EC is going to hold another farcical election as they did in January 5, 2014.”
Source: bdnews24
