Dr Kamal concerned but hopeful about Oikyafront's victory

Expressing concern over voting situation across the country, Jatiya Oikyafront top leader Dr Kamal Hossian has expressed his hope that Oikyafront will secure win.    

He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Voqarunnisa Noon School centre on Sunday morning.

“Reports have it from outside Dhaka that votes have been cast overnight unlawfully depriving the voters of their right which is very disturbing,"he said.

“Millions of lives had been laid down in 1971 and thereafter in the Liberation War and different democratic movements for establishing the voting right,” Kamal said.

Through casting votes, he said, people exercise their rights to the state.

Dr Kamal said there are around 160 million people in Bangladesh who canot directly govern the country. "They've to govern through their elected representatives. This is the critical importance of the election," he added.

“We're getting phone calls from different places of stuffing ballot boxes overnight which is shocking. This is the betrayal with the martyrs and Bangabnadhu,” said Dr Kamal.

With UNB inputs