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BNP raps govt for 'snatching verdict' AL claims polls credible

Staff Correspondent
The BNP has alleged that the government used law enforcement agencies to "snatch people's verdict" to manipulate the results of the upazila elections into their favour.
However, the ruling Awami League has claimed the second phase of the upazila election was held in a credible manner. The party also hoped that the election would be acceptable to the international community.
Speaking at a press conference at BNP's Nayapaltan central office yesterday, BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that government had resorted to "a deep-rooted conspiracy" to rig the election results to make the ruling party favourites victorious.
"The government used police and Rab as party cadres to snatch people's
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verdict," said the joint secretary general of the BNP.
Rizvi also criticised the Election Commission, saying it worked as "the puppet of the government".
Terming the EC "spineless", he said, "The EC didn't take any action against the ruling party cadres who were violating the electoral code of conduct. The EC is working to please the prime minister".
The BNP leader also said the EC would be put on trial some day for its subservient role.
Meanwhile, HTImam, co-chairman of the Awami League Election Management Committee, lambasted the BNP for resorting to falsehood over the elections.
At a press conference at AL president's Dhanmondi office, HT Imam, also the establishment affairs adviser to the PM, said that elections were held in a credible and mostly peaceful manner.
Responding to a query about violence in some places, Imam said those incidents were insignificant.
"Out of 8,034 centres, voting was postponed only in 35 centres. It's like a tiny molecule [in a large piece of mass]," he said.
He also blamed BNP-Jamaat cadres for the unwanted situations.
"The BNP had been planning from even before the election to create violence and it did so using Jamaat cadres," he alleged.
He went on to say the BNP called hartals in some districts as it had sensed defeat in those areas beforehand.
Elections were held in 115 upazila parishads in the second phase yesterday amid some stray incidents of violence including clash, suspension of voting, allegations of vote rigging, fake vote casting, suspension of polling officers and attacks on voters and police in some 34 upazilas.