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Non-deployment of Army in By-poll

EC would have gone to HC if BOB did not: Acting CEC

Staff Correspondent
Acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Safiur Rahman yesterday said the Election Commission would have moved the High Court (HO for violation of the constitution and court directives on army deployment in the July 1 by-polls had the Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) notalreadydoneso.
The Acting CEC disclosed this when the EC yesterday heard both sides on the appeal filed by BDB candidate Abdul Mannan challenging the validity of the Dhaka-10 byelection held in violation of the High Court's order on army deployment in each polling centre during Dhaka-10 by-election.
The BDB leader on July 6 sued three secretaries and the acting principal staff officer of the Armed Forces Division for contempt of court for not providing army in each polling centre.
After thehcaring, the EC directed Mannan's counsel to submit an affidavit by July 15 on the allegation that their polling agents were driven
out of polling centres. It also asked the counsel for Mosaddak Ali Falu to submit a counter affidavit by July 18. The EC will fix the date to deliver its order on the issue after receiving the affidavits.
During the hearing, both counsels traded allegations of misleading the EC by providing false information, sparking a spell of heat at the EC. The acting CEC and election commissioners M Munsef AU and AKMohammadAIiheardbothside?.
Falu's counsel Advocate Mahbubur Rahman said if army personnel were deployed in each polling centre, his candidate would have bagged more votes. He said the election was held in a free and fair manner. They (BDB) should go to the High Court with their election dispute case, he said.
Mahbubur asked the EC whether it wants to interfere interferes with the High Court as a similar writ petition is pendingbefore the court.
Mannan's lawyer Advocate MK Rahman said everyone knows the election was not free and fair. The
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vote has no validity as it was held in violation of the court directive. The EC should cancel the poll and arrange it afresh for the sake of democracy, he argued.
Rahman said they did not come to the EC with election dispute case. "We have challenged the validity of the election held in violation of the court orders."
Mannan filed an appeal to the EC on July 3 challenging the validity of holding the by-election that violated the High Court's orders.