BNP won’t participate in upazila polls

Staff Reporter:

The BNP has decided not to participate in upcoming upazila elections saying that Sheikh Hasina gov-ernment and her subservient Election Commission (EC), civil and police administration cannot organize a free, fair, participatory and acceptable election.
The environment for holding free, fair and participatory polls is not visible..
BNP took the decision in a standing committee meeting on Monday night. BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman virtually joined in the meeting.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi sent a press release to media over the meeting.
Monday was anyway the last day of nomination submission of the first phase of forthcoming sixth upazila parishad election.