Jamaat Shibir agents and observers are roaming around polling stations

Staff Correspondent

Jamaat agents and supporters are roaming around polling stations. Jamaat agents and voters are roaming around polling stations in various remote areas of Sunamganj and Sylhet. Jamaat leaders and activists have been seen working freely at various centers after getting election observer cards with the help of former Chhatra Shibir leader and Sunamganj District Returning Officer Dr. Mohammad Ilyas Mia.

It is worth noting that former Shibir leader Dr. Mohammad Ilyas Mia was complained about in writing by BNP candidate Nasir Uddin Chowdhury for Sunamganj-2 constituency on February 10. In this complaint, he alleged that the District Returning Officer had impersonated a Jamaat leader.

BNP candidates and their supporters said that Jamaat has taken its presiding and polling officers in remote centers through the district returning officer. They are trying to do election engineering. A supporter of BNP candidate Kamruzzaman Kamrul from Sunamganj-1 constituency filed a written complaint against the Jamaat candidate yesterday, but the Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Assistant Returning Officer denied the complaint after the district returning officer refused to do so.

Meanwhile, the district returning officer has also committed irregularities and nepotism in the election observer cards. He has given observer cards to supporters of Jamaat candidates, journalists and various non-governmental organizations. Journalists of the BNP faction have alleged that he has given observer cards to some journalists of Jamaat’s Sunamganj on the advice of Jamaat candidates. They have also informed various government departments about the matter.

On the day of the on-site voting at 9 am, agents and supporters of the Jamaat candidate were seen roaming freely in the city’s Sholaghar and Maizbari areas. They were openly asking people to vote in the ballot boxes. At this time, observer card holders who had been given the cards by the District Commissioner were also urging people to vote for the Jamaat candidate.

In this regard, District Returning Officer Dr. Mohammad Ilias Mia said, “I did not commit nepotism or irregularities. I did not commit nepotism in distributing cards.” When asked why BNP supporters were deprived of observer cards despite giving observer cards to many journalists from unauthorized Facebook pages and other online organizations, he could not give any answer.