Staff Reporter:
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said the Election Commission’s show-cause notices for violations of the electoral code of conduct ahead of the one-sided January-7 polls are a ‘joke’ with the country’s people.
“It is the Election Commission that has destroyed the integrity of the Constitution by announcing the election schedule against the people’s will. Now serving notices for violation of the Awami-styled elec-tion code of conduct means the Commission is making fun of the people,” he said.
Speaking at a virtual press briefing, he also said there is no significance of violations of the code of con-duct in a one-sided election where people have no participation and voters have no interest in voting.
“This is a lopsided election where people from the same party and quarter are contesting either as direct or indirect candidates. Some are number one candidates, some are number two candidates and some are number three candidates. But all are Awami League candidates,” the BNP leader observed.
He also said the EC’s decision to transfer UNOs and OCs on the occasion of elections is just a reshuffle among Awami-minded UNOs and OCs. “The entire process is an unprecedented humor-stimulating dra-ma of laughs and jokes.”
