Politics
Rizvi urges voters to boycott 'dummy' upazila elections.

Rizvi urges voters to boycott 'dummy' upazila elections

Politics

Terming as "dummy elections", BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday urged the voters not to go to the polling stations on Wednesday to cast their votes in the first phase of Upazila Parishad elections.

"The upazila polls will start tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be held in four phases. We call upon everyone to tell your relatives, brothers, and sisters all over the country not to go to the polling stations," he said.

Just a day before the first phase of UP polls, Rizvi came up with the remarks while distributing leaflets, containing BNP’s call to boycott elections, to pedestrians, vehicle drivers, and passengers in the capital’s Banani area.

The BNP leader also said, "No one should support the dummy elections to the upazila parishads. It’s a sham, farcical, and fraudulent voting. People won’t participate in the polls."

Rizvi said that the country’s people turned down the dummy national election on January 7 arranged by the current "usurper government". "The regime is once again going to conduct sham elections to upazilas. But those who believe in democracy will also boycott this upazila election."