Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: BNP, in a letter, today called upon the Election Commission to take effective steps for ensuring overall security so that the party and the Jatiya Oikyafront’s candidates can conduct their electioneering in a free and fair manner.
BNP and Oikyafront’s candidates are being harassed and arrested and many of them are being attacked by the ruling party men during their electioneering across the country, BNP said in the letter.
BNP Vice Chairman Selima Rahman and Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal submitted a total of five letters to the EC seeking its steps on different issues to hold the upcoming general election in a credible and participatory manner.
Citing several instances of attacks carried out on their party men, BNP, in the letter, urged the EC to take legal action against the attackers so that the attackers are forced to refrain from such unlawful activities ahead of the election.
“The Election Commission will be held responsible if it does not act accordingly,” according to the letter signed by the party’s Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan.
BNP also asked the EC to ensure police protection for the candidates of the Oikyafront alongside its own candidates.
In a separate letter, BNP mentioned that the party’s official website — bnpbangladesh.com — has been blocked for the last three days and urged the EC to take a step for unblocking the website.
