Staff Reporter:
Speaking at a virtual press briefing, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yester-day called upon the Election Commission (EC) and the government to cancel the election schedule and create an atmosphere for holding a credible, inclusive and acceptable election in the country.
“The country’s 12 crore voters rejected with hatred the dictated election schedule announced by the Election Commission,” he said.
He said people who have been disenfranchised for the past 15 years have taken to the streets de-manding the resignation of ‘despotic ruler Sheikh Hasina’, and for the installation of a non-partisan caretaker government to oversee the next polls.
“Fascist Sheikh Hasina is carrying out a big crackdown across the country to establish an autocrat-ic dictatorship, by eliminating the nationalist forces and opposition parties and dissidents through a cunning blueprint after establishing her control over all the state apparatuses, including the judici-ary, administration and police,” the BNP leader said.
He claimed that the police have been unleashed on the people like wolves to arrest the BNP leaders and activists and their family members.
