The Awami League administration has used the entire state mechanism to sway the outcome of the national election to its favour, claims the BNP.
“The whole state-mechanism worked for a managed election,” its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told the party’s post-election official press conference on Monday (Dec 31).
Addressing the media at the BNP chief’s Gulshan offices, he said they have rejected the ‘farcical election’ before demanding "fresh polls under a neutral government".






The Awami League is about to form a government for an unprecedented third straight term after winning the election on Sunday. It won 259 of 299 seats while the Grand Alliance it leads won 288 seats.
The BNP, which had boycotted the last general election in 2014 saying it would not be fair, won just five seats while its ally Gano Forum won two seats.
Mirza Fakhrul claimed that the judiciary, administration, law enforcement and intelligence agencies joined hands for the “unprecedented election.”
“A state of fear has been created ahead of the election, which is no doubt the most tainted polls in nation’s history,” he added.
Sunday’s voting proved that the BNP chief Khaleda Zia was not wrong to boycott the 2014 election, said Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul.
On the Election Commission’s remarks that there was no scope for re-election, the BNP leader said they will launch political programmes to realise their demand.
Briefing the media after the party’s National Standing Committee’s meeting, Mirza Fakhrul said that as many as 21,000 BNP activists and leaders have been arrested in December.
The BNP’s policymaking forum sat in a meeting to decide the next course of action after the 11th parliamentary election.
Senior BNP leaders will also sit with the top brass of its 20-party alliance to discuss the same issue and draw up the further course of their politics.