Worthless election commissioners should resign: BNP MP Harunur Rashid
BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid today in parliament termed the election commissioners worthless and demanded their resignation for their “failure in arranging fair elections”.
“These worthless and incompetent election commissioners should resign from their posts,” Harun said.
Pointing to the February 1 city corporations’ elections, Harun said the voter turnout was only 27 percent and 24 percent.
He questioned the credibility and legitimacy of the two city elections as the majority of the people did not exercise their franchise in the elections.
“Is there any credibility and legitimacy of the elections that witness less than one-third turnout of the voters?” Harun said.
He also said there is no precedence of less than 50 percent voter turnout in any past local body elections.
On February 1, the DSCC and DNCC elections were held with the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Awami League mayoral candidates -- Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh in DSCC and Atiqul Islam in DNCC -- won the elections.
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