Chittagong City Corporation election has been 'good election' everywhere except a few centers, claimed the senior secretary of the Election Commission. Alamgir. He says elections in many Third World countries are "marred by violence." As he would say, rather we are ‘rarely here’. The incident took place in only two or three centers. A kind of miscreants do this.
Asked about low voter turnout, the EC secretary said there could be a reason for the voters' reluctance. Why don't today's citizens have the responsibility towards the state, the right to vote - they don't think so. I will vote with difficulty, why should I go to vote for someone else, what is the benefit to me in this ... such a mentality has become.
The EC secretary said this is the case with voting in most countries in the developed world. You will see in the case of America, they are so advanced in all respects; But most people do not go to the polls. So much the same in our country; These signs have appeared with the development of the country. Mankita has changed.
Voting ended at 4pm on Wednesday in the port city, with sporadic clashes and gunfire. After the vote, the senior secretary came to the election building in Dhaka to give the response of the commission in front of the journalists.
The election we have seen in the media, we have received reports through our control room, I would say it was a good election," he said.
Electronic voting machine (EVM) voting started at 8 am on Wednesday at 735 centers in Chittagong. Clashes broke out between rival councilor candidates in Chittagong's Lalkhanbazar, Patharghata and Pahartali during the polls.
Meanwhile, one person was killed in a shooting at Pahartali; Police arrested a BNP-backed councilor candidate for vandalizing an EVM machine in Patharghata.
The Election Commission Secretary said that only a few unruly people in the two centers, who did not want to vote in the EVM, carried out the attack and the voting was postponed as the EVM was damaged. The rest voted very nicely. Most of the centers have also become fruitful.
Alamgir said, there are always some people. 20,000 law enforcers were deployed in Chittagong to ensure smooth elections; The commission also took all possible measures.
Responding to a question, the secretary said that if there is a vote in EVM, many people think that fake vote cannot be given, they make such an attack.
Asked whether the deaths in the violence were "horrific", he said, "Where is the horrific situation?" Where only two of the 735 centers are suspended. If the EVM had not been vandalized, elections would have been held there as well. Two were closed because it was not possible to vote.
