Stop ‘game’ in the name of polls schedule announcement: BNP

BNP on Tuesday urged the government to stop a ‘game’ in the name of announcing a schedule for the 12 parliamentary elections.
At a virtual press briefing BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that the government has become crazy to hold a lopsided election ignoring the demands of people. Sheikh Hasina has started the process of announcing the election schedule illegally by the Election Commission which is subservient to her. Rizvi also urged the government to quit power accepting the opposition’s demand for holding the next polls under a non-party government.
He also warned that the consequences will be dire if the opposition’s one-point demand is not accepted. “There will be no election in Bangladesh as per the schedule (to be announced by the current EC). There will be no elections without a caretaker government. People will not allow any farcical and stage-managed election on the soil of Bangladesh,” he added. However, the Election Commission is likely to hold a meeting on Wednesday to finalise its decision on announcing the schedule for the upcoming national election.