Dhaka city polls will be free, impartial: Minister
Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said the upcoming elections to the Dhaka North and South city corporations will be held in a fair and neutral manner, and the state will accept the wining candidates as representatives and help them in discharging duties.
“Examples of free and fair elections have been established in the elections of Cumilla, Rangpur and Sylhet City Corporations. The government has not made any interference in those elections,” he said.
He made the remark while speaking as chief guest to a programme on the occasion of displaying the photo of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Law Reporters Forum’s (LRF) office on the Supreme Court premises.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Advocate AM Aminuddin, among others, spoke to the occasion.
Minister Rezaul Karim said those who did not recognise Bangladesh in 1971 have killed Bangabandhu and his family members on August 15, 1975.
And they promulgated the infamous Indemnity Ordinance and formulated a law in order to hinder the trial proceedings of Bangabandhu assassination case and tried to establish religion-based politics in Bangladesh, the minister said.
The housing and public works minister also said that as a great human being, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a glorious chapter in the history of Bangalees.
Bangabandhu is the greatest son of the Bangalee nation for all times, not for only thousand years, and he will remain vivid in the hearts of Bangalee people, Minister Rezaul added.
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