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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday staged a protest rally in Dhaka, alleging widespread irregularities, including vote rigging, ballot stuffing, grabbing of polling centres, and attacks on opposition activists during the Sherpur-3 parliamentary election and the Bogura-6 by-poll.

The elections to the two constitutions were held on April 9. BNP candidates won in both seats.

The rally was held at the north gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Juma prayers, followed by a protest procession that marched through Paltan intersection and ended at Bijoynagar roundabout.

Speaking at the event as chief guest, the party’s secretary general, Mia Golam Porwar, termed the elections in the two constituencies “farcical” and demanded cancellation of the results.

“The scale of vote rigging, occupation of polling centres, ballot stuffing, and attacks on opposition leaders and activists in the first election under the BNP’s tenure has surpassed even that of the Awami League regime,” Porwar said.

He alleged that despite media reports on irregularities and attacks on opposition activists, the chief election commissioner “made a mockery of the nation” by claiming the polls were fair.

Referring to the referendum, the Jamaat leader said the BNP had pledged before the national elections to fully implement its outcome if it won. “But after forming It

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