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Muktijoddha Sangsad Polls

Aggrieved war heroes now look to PM

Staff Correspondent
A nexus of administrative officials, public representatives, local engineers and contractors helped anti-liberation forces and fake freedom fighters assume leadership of the Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad through the June 4 election.
This allegation was raised at a conference of Liberation War heroes in the capital yesterday.
The speakers at the event alleged that money was spent to buy votes of freedom fighters and the administration backed ballot snatching and vote rigging.
Terming all of this unfortunate, especially at a time when the war crimes trial is going on, freedom fighters called upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina not to administer oath to the newly elected members of the Muktijoddha Sangsad central command council.
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The conference was attended by freedom fighters, including ex-commanders of Muktijoddha Sangsad's district and upazila command councils, with former chairman of the central command council, Abdul Ahad Ghowdhury, in the chair.
Four panels contested the June 4 elections.
Of them, the panel led by Maj Gen (retd) GH Morshed Khan secured all the posts of the central command council, the 41-man body that will steer the organisation. Some fake freedom fighters and a man accused of killing a freedom fighter in 1971 were elected from Morshed's panel.
Three other panels - led by Maj (retd) Zia Liddin, Maj (retd) Wakar Hassan and Abdul Ahad Chowdhury - failed to bag a single post.
KM Amir Ali, commander candidate of Jhenidah district command council, alleged that local MP Abdul Hye and Silkhupa upazila chairman had snatched ballots before the voting started.
Former Thakurgaon commander Khairul Alam blamed local MP and former minister Ramesh Chandra Sen for vote rigging. Shah Zaman from Naogaon pointed the finger at local AL lawmaker Sadhan Majumder.
Khalequr Rahman, executive member candidate of central command council, said his panel was defeated by Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) officials and upazila chairmen.
Wahidur Rahman, chief engineer of LGED, was elected vice-chairman. Engineers under the LGED ministry worked for him across the country; they were directly involved in the election campaign.
Tariqul Billah from Begumganj alleged that Wahidur Rahman's panel spent huge
sums to buy votes and misled freedom fighters by claiming that it was government-backed.
Shafiqul Bahar MajumderTipu, secretary general (finance and planning) candidate from the Ahad Chowdhury panel, requested the PM not to administer the oath of newly elected body of the Muktijoddha Sangsad.
He also said all freedom fighters were united under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, but the vote rigging had tarnished the image of her government.
Nazim Uddin Talukder, former deputy commander of Jamalpur, said Mahbubul Haque Chisty alias Babul Chisty, elected secretariat member of the central command council, was an informer of the Pakistan occupation force during the Liberation War.
Babul Chisty also abetted the killing of freedom fighters, he alleged. "As he [Babul] has become our leader, we have no alternative to committing suicide.”
Freedom fighters alleged that the Ahad Chowdhury panel had won the election, but the result was altered through using the local administration. They demanded the cancellation of the vote results and a holding of fresh elections.
From the programme, held at the Institution of Engineers, Ahad Chowdhury urged all freedom fighters to form coordinating committees for each upazila and district within the next 21 days.
These committees will work for the welfare of war heroes as the Muktijoddha Sangsad, which is meant to play this role, is now being led by fake freedom fighters, he said.
Ahad also announced a holding of conferences in every division and a grand rally in the capital after Eid.