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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the Election Commission to enactment with “complete impartiality”, weeks up of February 12 wide elections.
BNP caput wide Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the remarks connected Sunday evening (January 18, 2026) aft a gathering with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin astatine the Election Commission gathering successful Agargaon, Dhaka, state-run BSS reported.
Mr. Alamgir said the BNP has ever cooperated with the Election Commission to guarantee a free, just and impartial election.
“However, we are present observing definite issues wherever arrangements look biased and behaviour raises concerns. We person urged the committee to refrain from specified practices and to enactment with implicit impartiality,” helium said.
The BNP leader, elaborating connected the meeting’s agenda, said “the postal ballot contented is inactive not afloat resolved”.
“Specifically, we judge that the mode ballot papers person been printed for registered voters residing overseas is not correct. There seems to beryllium an effort to springiness peculiar vantage to a peculiar governmental enactment here. We person demanded a alteration successful these ballot papers,” Mr. Alamgir said.
“We person besides requested that those who volition beryllium connected predetermination work wrong the state person their postal ballots aft the allocation of symbols. This is truthful that they tin besides person the accidental to ballot according to their judgment, conscionable similar immoderate different voter,” helium added.
On alleged violations of the electoral codification of behaviour and postulation of idiosyncratic information, helium said, “A governmental party’s activists are going door-to-door collecting copies of voters' NIDs, bKash numbers, and mobile numbers. This is simply a usurpation of idiosyncratic privateness arsenic good arsenic a transgression offence. We person urged the committee to instrumentality urgent enactment to this end.” “A governmental enactment is resorting to unethical tactics by transferring voters from assorted parts of the state to Dhaka,” helium claimed.
“We person requested the committee to urgently supply america with a elaborate database of which areas, however galore voters, for what reason, and erstwhile they were transferred to Dhaka,” helium added.
The seasoned BNP person alleged that they person received complaints that successful assorted electoral areas, "officials were moving successful favour of a circumstantial governmental party".
“For the involvement of a fair, free, and acceptable election, we person requested their withdrawal taxable to investigation,” helium said.
Meanwhile, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has urged practice from each stakeholders to clasp a free, just and inclusive election.
He made the remarks portion addressing appellants and lawyers aft a nine-day-long proceeding connected appeals against returning officers' decisions connected information papers for the 13th parliamentary predetermination astatine the EC auditorium successful the capital's Agargaon area.
The CEC said the commission's decisions were made without bias and with cautious analysis. “All enactment from the nationalist and stakeholders are indispensable to guarantee a creaseless and credible voting process,” helium added.
