staff reporter:
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said that voting in the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency was completed in a peaceful atmosphere without allegations of polling centre capture, vote rigging or clashes.
He made the remarks while speaking to journalists at the BNP central office in Nayapaltan in the capital this afternoon.
Rizvi said voters had been seen casting their votes in an excellent and peaceful atmosphere since the morning.
He said the BNP was optimistic about the election as voting had taken place in a fair environment with satisfactory voter turnout.
At the time, he called on the opposition party not to fabricate allegations artificially over the election.
