CPB, Left Alliance won’t join election under party govt: Selim

GBNews24 Desk//

Former president of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Mujahidul Islam Selim has said the CPB and Left Alliance will not take part in any election under the party government, because the Awami League government has reduced the entire election system into a farce.

He observed that January 5, 2014 general election was mainly ‘a one-party polls’ when 153 Awami League candidates won the elections uncontested.

On the other hand, December 30, 2018 general election was ‘staged at midnight.’

“Now the election has become Boat’s Awami League versus Rebel Awami League,” he said while speaking at a public meeting organised by Bogura district committee of CPB to press home the demands of restoring voting rights and controlling price hike of essentials.

Bogura district CPB president Jinnatul Islam Jinna presided over the meeting which was held at Satmatha in the city on Friday afternoon.

CPB central leaders Abdullah Kafi Ratan, former VP of RUCSU Ragib Ahsan Munna, CPB central committee member Advocate Mohsin Reza and Bogura district CPB general secretary Aminul Farid, among others, spoke at the meeting.

Selim asserted that the CPB wouldn’t take part in the next parliamentary elections under any party-led government. “The present government must be compelled to declare the next general election under a non-party neutral government. In order to do this, we must have to build a united movement against the misrule of Awami League.”

The former CPB president said Awami League has been in power over the last 14 years. During this long period, bureaucrats, contractors, dishonest politicians have siphoned off billions of taka from Bangladesh.

He said farmers, peasants, expatriate workers and garment workers earn money working relentlessly, but the looters are siphoning off the money from the country.