The BNP has written to the chief election commissioner over its demands to ensure a level playing field ahead of the 11th parliamentary election.
The letter by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was hand delivered by a three-member party delegation on Tuesday (Nov 20).
“The Commission is failing to play its role to create a level-playing field”, BNP Joint Secretary General Moazzem Hossain Alal, who led the delegation, told the media after delivering the letter to Election Commission Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed.
The BNP, which boycotted the 10th National Election in 2014, is taking part this time after a launching a new alliance, the Jatiya Oikya Front.
In the letter, the BNP has asked the Commission to transfer all the divisional commissioners, range police chiefs and the Dhaka metro police commissioner.
It has also demanded transfer of Upazila administration chiefs and police OCs to transfer outside the districts they are posted.
The BNP has demanded for maintaining seniority of bureaucrats while designating them to offices as well as scrapping all contractual appointments in the administration.
It has also called for not assigning public servants, who had worked for the PMO or served as PS or APS to ministers, in the administration.
The party has also demanded the scrapping of a recent government order appointing 45 serving and retired bureaucrats as mentors to advise the local administration in as many districts.
EC Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed is among the 45 mentors. He has been appointed for the hill tract district of Bandarban.