The 12th national parliamentary election will be held tomorrow (Sunday). The Election Commission (EC) has already made street and careful preparations to hold the election in a free, fair, and peaceful manner.
The country wears an unprecedented festive look with unbridled enthusiasm among the people ahead of the national poll. Members of different law enforcement agencies have strengthened security measures across the country aiming to keep the law and order stable and avert any untoward situation centring the 12th general poll.
Besides, the army has been also deployed across the country since Wednesday to aid the civil administration under the 'In Aid to the Civil Power' in the election. The candidates passed their last moments in door-to-door campaign to woo the voters as the campaign ended on Friday.
A peaceful atmosphere is prevailing in the country. Securities of all the voters will be ensured at any cost on the day of balloting.
The EC and local administration have been working relentlessly so that the voters can return to their residences safely after casting their votes. All the agencies concerned, including the law-enforcement, have already started performing their duties to make the election peaceful.
We believe tomorrow will be a very happy day for democracy-loving Bengalis. The mandate of the people will be reflected, through votes.
However, the BNP-Jamaat alliance boycotted the election creating an unstable situation in the country by carrying out arson violence to land people in sufferings. They have already enforced a 48-hour nationwide hartal from today (Saturday) morning, which includes the voting day, to protest the 12th parliamentary election.
Securities of all the
voters will be ensured
at any cost on the
day of balloting.
Besides, the leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies took out a procession with sticks in the capital on Friday morning demanding the government’s resignation and cancellation of the January 7 poll.
They also called upon the country’s people to boycott the election and not to go to the polling stations. But, Awami League believes in the vote.
BNP-Jamaat’s politics is to burn people. Do the people want them? No, people don’t.
Four polling centres set up in schools were set on fire in three constituencies of Rajshahi early Friday. Miscreants used petrol bombs to set the polling stations on fire just one day ahead of the poll to create panic among the voters. The political parties, which burn people and kill people should not have any right to do politics in Bangladesh. Therefore, people do not want this kind of subversive activities anymore.
We believe people imbued with the spirit of the Great War of Liberation will cast their votes in the January 7 parliamentary election to prove that democracy has been prevailing in the country. Voting is people’s democratic and constitutional right.
Therefore, they will go to the polling centres to cast their votes. The parliamentary election must be held on January 7 confronting all the conspiracies.
People should cast their votes in favour of pro-liberation political parties and ensure their victory to give a befitting reply to the atrocities of the BNP-Jamaat alliance. So, people will come to polling stations and respond to anti-election conspiracies with their votes on the election day on January 7. All will have to be aware of conspiracy so that no one could destroy the fate of Bangladesh through any type of plot.
We have noticed that the secret motive of some foreign countries is to hinder the progress of Bangladesh and use the Bay of Bengal in their interest and they try to influence the election and democracy of this country. They want to create a (unstable) situation in this country on different excuses, including election, democracy so that they can use the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal for their purpose.
So, those who are plotting here to thwart the election will be rejected. And anyone from international level interfering in our affairs will not be accepted.