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Upazila Polls

BNP blasts role of EC, admin

Staff Correspondent
The BNP has stridently criticised the administration and the Election Commission (EC) for their "open bias” towards the candidates backed by the ruling party in the recently held upazila elections.
The standing committee of the party has also passed a resolution condemning their inactivity which, the BNP claims, has destroyed the country's polls process. The resolution, passed unanimously at the meeting with Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office last night, also strongly denounced "unprecedented" violence, vote rigging and manipulation of polls results in the upazila elections by the government and the ruling Awami League.
“The election commission and the administration shamelessly assisted the Awami League in the upazila elections. The BNP thinks the roles played by the government, the Election Commission and the administration have proved that a free and fair election cannot take place under the AL administration," reads the resolution signed by BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed.
The party also alleged that oppression against the "opposition" parties has increased after the elections.
"Elected (upazila] chairmen are being arrested and thus, being obstructed from taking oath,” said the resolution.
The highest policy-making body of the BNP also lambasted the government for failing to ensure fair share of the Teesta river waters from India.
"Environment and agriculture of the country's entire northern region are badly affected due to the unilateral withdrawal of water by India from thecommon riverTeesta," said the resolution.
The BNP demanded that the government take necessary steps to ensure fair share of waters of all common rivers.
MOUDUD-GOYESHWAR SQUABBLE
In the meeting, BNP standing committee members Moudud Ahmed and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy locked horns over a recent remark of the latter.
Alleging the judiciary's bias towards the ruling party, Goyeshwar recently commented that all the courts of the country were now in the pocket of the “Mujib coat".
A BNP standing committee member, who was present at the meeting, quoted Moudud as saying, "Our leaders will not get bail if the higher court becomes displeased over his |Goyeshwar's] comment on courts".
Goyeshwar sharply reacted to this, saying that the anti-government movement before the January 5 polls did not succeed due to the "overtly lenient" policy of some BNP leaders.
Party chief Khaleda Zia did not intervene during the hour-long heated argument between the two senior leaders, said the