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Demand for Fresh Polls

Oikyafront to hold national dialogue

Staff Correspondent
The opposition alliance, Jatiya Oikyafront, yesterday decided to hold a national dialogue over the demand for a fresh election.
The alliance will also file cases with election tribunals soon, and its leaders will visit the areas where electoral violence took place during the polls.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Oikyafront spokesman and BNP secretary general, announced the programmes after the alliance steering committee held a meeting.
Dr Kamal Hossain, Oikyafront convener and Gonoforum president, chaired the meeting held at his Bailey Road residence.
Senior alliance leaders, including Fakhrul, ASM Abdur Rob, Abdul Kader Siddique, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Subrata Chowdhury and Mostafa Mohsin Montu were present.
After the meeting, Fakhrul alleged that the Election Commission deceived people during the December 30 election. People were deprived of their democratic and constitutional rights as the "government-backed goons" created fear among them,
he said.
"It is so unfortunate that the election was made farcical by misusing law enforcers and administration."
As part of the blueprint, the EC verbally asked the police and the administrative officials to help the Awami League-backed criminals to stuff ballot boxes by casting votes for "boat" and "plough" symbols, the BNP leader alleged.
He demanded copies of polling centre-wise results so that people could place those to courts to prove that no election was held in Bangladesh in line with the constitution.
The alliance also sought a fresh and fair poll under a nonpartisan govern-ment and neutral Election Commission.
Fakhrul said Oikyafront top leaders would first visit Balaganj in Sylhet within a week as an alliance activist was killed there during the election.
Immediately after the 11th parliamentary election on December 30, the Oikyafront rejected the polls results, raising allegations of widespread ballot stuffing and irregularities and demanded an immediate election under a nonpartisan neutral government.
In the polls, the Oikyafront, an alliance of BNP and some other parties, won seven seats while ruling AL-led grand alliance bagged 288 out of the 289 seats.