Gono Odhikar Parishad urges EC to bar JaPa, 14-party alliance from electoral talks
The party also called upon the commission not to allow any person who participated in the 12th parliamentary election to contest the upcoming general election even as an independent candidate.
The Gono Odhikar Parishad today (12 November) urged the Election Commission not to invite Jatiya Party and the members of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance to its electoral dialogue, which is set to start tomorrow ahead of the national election.
The party also called upon the commission not to allow any person who participated in the 12th parliamentary election to contest the upcoming general election, even as an independent candidate.
"We request the commission not to invite the AL's allies, the Jatiya Party, and the 14 parties, who participated in the 2024 dummy election and pushed the country towards destruction by legitimising the elections held under Sheikh Hasina, to any dialogue," party's General Secretary Md Rashed Khan told reporters after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin at Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital.
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He said the Jatiya Party and the 14 parties should not be invited to the commission's dialogue on the plea of having registration.
"We asked the commission to hold a dialogue with only those parties that participated in the discussion with the National Consensus Commission. Otherwise, if the allies of fascism get the opportunity to have a dialogue with the EC, it will be a betrayal of the blood of the students and the people who sacrificed during the July Uprising," he added.
Rashed Khan further claimed that AL leaders in the last 16 years earned huge money by looting and illegal activities and they have adequate illegal money.
"So, if the AL leaders holding party posts get the opportunity to participate in the election as independent candidates, they may be involved in a conspiracy to sabotage the election through the use of money and muscle power," he said.
The Gono Odhikar Parishad leader requested the commission, in the written petition, to clarify its position by taking appropriate steps so that no banned AL leader or activist gets the opportunity to participate in the election even as an independent candidate, in order to make the elections free and fair.
