No election without level playing field: BNP

Bangladesh nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday claimed that no general election would be held without ensuring a level playing field.
At a commemoration meeting for late BNP standing committee member KM Obaidur Rahman, he said that prime minister Sheikh Hasina was carrying out election campaign for her party at public meetings flying by helicopter spending the state’s money while
the opposition parties particularly BNP was not being allowed to hold public meeting, gathering and procession.
KM Obaidur Rahman Smriti Sangsad organised the event at Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, in Dhaka marking Obaid’s 10th death anniversary.
Fakhrul alleged that the Awami League government was deceiving people in the name of democracy and playing election games with them.
He said that the ruling party was holding public meetings flying by helicopters while BNP could not hold meeting even inside rooms and needed police permission even for a closed-door meeting.
Fakhrul demanded ensuring a level playing field by returning back fundamental rights to political parties including BNP and ensure their rights to hold rally and procession. Otherwise there would be no election, he warned.
People would accept no general election if not conducted by a neutral Election Commission under a non-party neutral government, he said.
About the prime minister’s forthcoming visit to New Delhi, Fakhrul said that BNP wanted solution to Bangladesh’s existing problems with India and to enhance mutual relations for economic development, but independence and sovereignty must be upheld.
Earlier in the morning talking to reporters he said signing of any deal with India without Teesta river water sharing treaty would be meaningless.
Talking to reporters on the premises of grave of late president Ziaur Rahman, Fakhrul came down hard on the prime minister for her comments made at a public meeting at Magura on Tuesday that BNP had come to power in 2001 through giving undertakings to India and the United States.
He asked whether the incumbent government clung to power with the help of the United States and Indian RAW.
Presided over by BNP vice-chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain, the commemoration meeting was also addressed by BNP leaders Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Abdul Awal Mintoo, Abdus Salam, JAGPA president Shafiul Alam Prodhan, Democratic League general secretary Saifuddin Ahmed Moni and Smriti Sangsad president TM Giasuddin. 

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