Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the party, claimed that municipal elections had turned farcical as per the blueprint of the government.
"We were apprehensive that a farcical election would be held and our premonition just came true," he told news hounds at a presser at BNP Chairperson
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
's Gulshan office on Wednesday.
Fakhrul claimed that fair elections were not possible to be held as long as the incumbent government was in office as it would not allow any such election to be held.
"Since morning, there was no spontaneity among voters. Rather, violence and occupation of polling centres turned the polls into a tragedy.
"Till 4pm, we have learned that BNP agents were ejected from 157 polling stations. In many places, voters were also ousted and most of the polling centres were occupied," he alleged.
The BNP leader said: "One thing we have noticed is that the government used all the state organs to manipulate elections."