Comilla City Poll: BNP alleges police, goons intimidate its supporters

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday alleged that the police and local goons were intimidating the party’s leaders and activists and supporters of its mayoral candidate in Comilla City Corporation elections slated for Thursday.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party’s central office in Dhaka said that uniformed and plain-
clothes police personnel were threatening, harassing and arresting BNP leaders and activists in the name of conducting searches in the city.
Fretting over posters and banners of the BNP-backed mayoral candidate being torn down by the ruling party activists, Rizvi said, ‘Terrorists under the shelter of local administration have become so desperate, particularly at nine wards of Comilla city corporation, that ordinary voters and BNP leaders, activists and supporters are living in a climate of extreme fear.’ 
The senior BNP leader, apprehending that the government and the ruling party officials might make unlawful interference in the elections, urged the authorities to declare 43 polling centres in those nine wards ‘very vulnerable’ so that a fair atmosphere could be created for the voters to exercise their franchise without fear.
He also claimed that the incidents of violence by the ruling party men, chasing after BNP’s campaign processions and tearing down of its candidate’s posters were recurring in Comilla. 
He said that the prevailing electoral atmosphere in Comilla was far from what the Chief Election Commissioner had claimed it to be. ‘Even then we expect that the CEC would maintain his commitment to hold CCC elections in a fair and peaceful manner,’ he hoped. 

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