Oikya Front to meet EC on Wednesday with election delay appeal

The Jatiya Oikya Front alliance led by Kamal Hossain will place a demand to the Election Commission on Wednesday to defer the election furthermore.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 13 Nov 2018, 09:12 AM
Updated : 13 Nov 2018, 09:12 AM

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam, the spokesman for the alliance, announced the decision on Tuesday.

The Oikya Front had demanded delaying the election for a month when the EC announced the first schedule and fixed Dec 23 as the election day.

The EC failed to satisfy the BNP and its alliance members even after rescheduling the election to Dec 30.

The EC fixed the election day on Dec 30 as it plotted to hold a ‘rigged election’ avoiding all foreign observers, BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed during a press briefing on Tuesday.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda dismissed the demand for a further delay saying there is no scope to shift the date beyond Dec 30.

“It does not matter what the CEC says but we’ll place our demand,” said Mirza Fakhrul on the context of the CEC’s statement.

Alliance leaders will set the issues to be discussed at the EC meeting on Wednesday, he said. 

On Nov 16, Oikya Front chief Kamal Hossain will sit with newspaper editors seeking their views on the upcoming election, he said.