Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Ehsanul Mahbub Zubair has warned that the 11-party United Bangladesh Alliance will launch a tough movement if there is any conspiracy to manipulate or delay the publication of the people’s electoral verdict or any attempt to reinstate what he termed the “old fascism.”
The Election Commission has decided to postpone the announcement of results of three constituencies of the recently concluded 13th National Parliament elections. The constituencies are Sherpur-2, Chattogram-2, and Chattogram -4. The decision has been taken as there are court cases against the winning candidates in these constituencies. The announcement of their results will be postponed until the cases are disposed of.
BNP candidate for Kishoreganj-4 (Itna-Mithamoin-Ashtagram) constituency, senior advocate and brave freedom fighter Fazlur Rahman has been elected unofficially. He won by a margin of 77,704 votes with a total of 132,503 votes under the paddy sheaf symbol.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that “election engineering” was carried out in several specific constituencies in an attempt to ensure the victory of certain candidates in the national parliamentary election.
Dr Shafiqur Rahman, Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, has raised questions over the delayed announcement of results in several constituencies of the national parliamentary election.
Barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho, BNP alliance candidate and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman, has been unofficially elected in the Bhola-1 (Sadar) constituency after defeating the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate by a huge margin. He has been elected member of parliament from this important district seat for the second time. He was previously elected MP from the same constituency in 2008.