Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which leading country's biggest opposition allience, is in soft tune now regarding use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in upcoming general election staled for late 2023 or early 2024.
BNP made this statement shortly after the EC decided to utilize paper ballots for all 300 seats without using any EVMs, a move that the party had long opposed (using EVMs).
Speaking at an iftar party, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said their party is least bothered about the EC’s decisions to use ballot papers in all 300 seats instead of EVMs in the upcoming polls as their main concern is about the election-time government.
He also alleged that a suffocating situation has been prevailing in the country as the government has been increasingly trying to suppress the people’s freedom of expression by repressing democracy-loving people, including politicians and journalists, as the national election is nearing.
“The Election Commission has said today (Monday) that ballot papers will be used in all seats in the election. “We don’t have even an iota of interest in the matter. We think the main crisis is who will be there in the government during the election and it’s our main concern,” the BNP leader said.
BNP hosted the iftar party in honour of politicians at Ladies Club in the city’s Eskaton area.
