A team of policemen and election officers on Sunday intervened when Selina Hayat Ivy, an aspirant mayoral candidate for the Narayanganj City Corporation elections, was holding a press conference on Sunday.
The press conference Ivy
was holding at the Narayanganj Press Club began at noon and about half an hour later, the police team, headed by the Sadar police officer-in-charge, Md Aktar Hossain, sadar upazila election officer Rakibuzzaman, and assistant returning officer for the city corporation elections Mosleuddin entered the press club and a heated exchange took place.
Aktar Hossain and Rakibuzzaman told Ivy that they had visited the place on information that there was an election campaign going in breach of the electoral code of conduct.
‘I went to the venue of the press conference as election officials asked us to go there,’ Aktar told New Age.
Ivy was briefing reporters on her position about the rumours that had been rife for a few days that she was joining or negotiating with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami so that she could win the elections.
She said that she was daughter of Ali Ahmed Chunka and she would never stop being with the Awami League. ‘Other aspirants have spread the rumours,’ she added.
She also told the reporters that her father was chairman of the municipal corporation and she had also been elected chairman to the now-defunct mnicipal corporation. ‘I am vice-president of the city unit Awami League and now I am a mayoral candidate of the city corporation polls.’
In reply to the question of the reporters, she said, ‘I have never left Narayanganj and I will stand by the city residents in future.’
As for visit of the policemen and election officials and intervention in the press conference, she said that it was clearly meant to thwart the citizens’ right to voting.
She also urged army deployment before the elections to stave off any untoward situations.
The district administration and the superintendent of police are serving the purpose of Shamim Osman and they need to be transferred if the elections were to be free and fair, Ivy said.
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