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The United States (US) has encouraged the government of Bangladesh to investigate any report of violence thoroughly, transparently, and impartially, and to hold the perpetrators of violence to account, reports UNB.
"I would say that this type of political violence has no place in democratic elections," US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller told in a regular briefing in Washington on July 17 when the assault on Hero Alam during Monday’s Dhaka-17 by-election was raised.
Miller also said they would expect the government of Bangladesh to hold free and fair elections.
“And we continue to monitor it closely.”
Ashraful Alam, better known as “Hero Alam”, an independent candidate contesting the Dhaka-17 by-election, was physically assaulted while leaving a polling centre in Banani area.
He was attacked by some miscreants in the afternoon while he was leaving the Banani Bidyaniketan School polling centre. He returned home after receiving treatment at a hospital.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
