Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Citizens for Good Governance (SHUJAN), has said elections will “not be unacceptable” without Awami League’s participation, UNB reports.
The Awami League has completely destroyed the electoral system in this country by conducting “dummy, one-sided and midnight” elections, he said.
Badiul, also head of the Commission for Electoral System Reforms, made these remarks on Saturday while speaking at the shadow parliament debate competition organised by the Debate for Democracy at the FDC Auditorium in the capital.
Chairman of Debate for Democracy Hasan Ahmed Chowdhury Kiran presided over the event.
Those involved in the destruction of the electoral system should be brought to justice, Badiul added.
“In the last three parliamentary elections, almost everyone connected with the election, including the Election Commission, police, administration, returning officers, and polling officers, were involved in criminal activities.”
The SHUJAN secretary said, “The Election Commission has committed a clear violation of the constitution by partisanship of the electoral system under various pretexts.”
The commission had shown irresponsibility regarding the planned attack on BNP’s Naya Paltan rally on October 28 to keep the party out of the elections. It failed to prepare a level-playing field for elections.
So, the issue of trial of all the persons accused of election crimes should be seriously considered.
The current government is not a caretaker government. The caretaker government was the routine government. The interim government is struggling to clear the mess of the last 15/16 years.
“Even then, delaying national elections could erode public confidence in the interim government,” he said.
In the debate competition, Dhaka International University won by defeating Jagannath University.
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