‘BNP did not participate in election anticipating defeat’

Dhaka, Jan 7: Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) did not participate in the parliamentary elections because it knew that it would lose, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Sunday.
“The BNP has taken a strategy of boycotting the election with various excuses, various demands. They participated in the 2018 election and got some parliamentary seats, but this year they did not participate knowing they would be defeated,” Khan, a senior leader of the ruling Awami League, was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper.
Khan made the comments while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Monipuripara in Dhaka’s Farmgate area.
The BNP is involved in killing people and arson attacks just as they did in 2014, he alleged.
“People do not want such torture and violence. So, they are coming to the polling stations in a festive mood,” he added. (PTI)