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BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday urged voters to remain vigilant during the vote-counting process, warning against any attempts to delay the counting or manipulate the results.

Addressing an election rally at the Sports Park in Jashore town, he alleged that a political party seeking to confine women to their homes was conspiring to make the election controversial.

“We are hearing new stories that vote counting will take much longer this time. The people of this country may not have been able to vote for the last decade, but that does not mean they lack experience. They voted in 1991, 1996 and 2001. The people of Bangladesh know how long vote counting takes,” he said.

Earlier, at a rally in Khulna -- his first there in 22 years -- Tarique criticised a Jamaat leader over alleged controversial remarks about women, referring to a post from the verified X account of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman.

“Just two days ago, a leader of a political party used a word about working women, our mothers and sisters, that I feel ashamed to repeat here,” he said.

Tarique said that amid nationwide

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