BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said Hero Alam, who was lost in Bogura-4 by-polls by a narrow margin, has become a real hero since he proved Awami League has got so helpless that even it had to use the state machinery against a candidate like him to defeat him, reports UNB.
Speaking at a rally, the BNP leader also said the recent by-polls have once again justified their party’s demand for holding the next polls under a non-partisan caretaker government.
"We would like to clearly say no fair election can be held under the unelected regime that usurped power by repeatedly deceiving the people of Bangladesh and fooling them. It has been proved again through the recent by-elections," he said.
The by-polls to the six parliamentary seats — left vacant after BNP MPs resigned —were held amid some stray incidents on Wednesday.
"Hero Alam has now become a hero as he has proved the Awami League was so helpless even to Hero Alam that it had to ensure its victory using the state machinery,” Fakhrul observed.
He also said former BNP MP Advocate Abdus Sattar took part in the Barahmanbaria-2 by-polls as an Independent candidate by resigning from the party. "Awami League took him (Sattar) as their own candidate and it had to make his rival candidate disappear to ensure Sattar's victory.”
The BNP leader said by-polls have proved that the voting rights of people will not be restored if Awami League remains in power.
Independent candidate Ashraful Hossain Alam, known as Hero Alam, lost to Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal candidate AKM Rezaul Karim Tansen by 834 votes in Bogura-4 by-polls. Ashraful claimed that he was defeated by manipulating the election results.
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