Leaders of an limitless quantity of minority groups on the present time (27 November) alleged that Awami League candidates persecuted them after losing elections in opposition to their dangle partymen in the final 15 years.
They made the allegations whereas talking with participants of the Electoral Reform Commission (ERC) on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
“The marginalised communities faced persecution in the final three elections. The AL candidates contested in opposition to themselves. Whoever misplaced the election, persecuted us,” acknowledged Sandhya Malo, a consultant of the indigenous neighborhood.
Rajkumar Shaw, govt director of the Anagrasar Samaj Unnayan Sangstha (ASUS), acknowledged indigenous communities are customarily labelled as supporters of diversified political events at diversified times, making it robust for them to talk out.
“Each time we strive to talk for our rights, we internet tagged. Every so often they designate us as supporters of Awami League, customarily of BNP, and customarily of Jamaat. We’re attacked attributable to those labels. Here is our weak point. We’re now now not successfully-trained, and we struggle to right ourselves clearly,” he acknowledged.
In the meantime, echoing Sandhya’s allegations, Nationwide Indigenous Council’s Fashioned Secretary Bimal Chandra Rajwar acknowledged, “It is now now not actually considerable who we vote for. If we vote for the candidates we adore and they fetch, then folks that misplaced will beat us. We’re already bowled over. Each person is aware of how noteworthy the indigenous neighborhood has been persecuted for the explanation that British generation.”
He additionally acknowledged, “If we file a criticism in regards to the elections, it stays unresolved even after the elections. Therefore, complaints ought to be investigated inner 24 hours, and candidacies ought to be cancelled if mandatory. This would help discontinuance the impact of shadowy money and muscle energy in elections.”
Talking on the occasion, ERC head Badiul Alam Majumdar acknowledged a golden opportunity has arisen to remove previous injustices and discrimination.
“Our culture of injustice needs to total. We’re participants of one family with out reference to caste and faith. There ought to be no division between us. The sooner this happens, the upper,” he acknowledged.
The rights of the indigenous neighborhood could additionally be ensured with staunch governance and guaranteeing that everybody does their responsibility, he additionally acknowledged.
“We bear an nice opportunity to remove all the injustices and discrimination that came about in the previous. We blueprint to luxuriate in a nation the put equal alternatives will doubtless be readily available for everybody. We bear to be guided by the same values that our trip was once in accordance with,” the ERC chief acknowledged.
Faded Election Commission extra secretary and ERC member Jasmine Tuli, acknowledged, “In the final three elections, all the things was once destroyed. This has never occurred sooner than. Now, in spite of who wins, violence happens—whether or now now not the candidate wins or loses.”
In repeat to total the post and pre-election violence in opposition to minorities, representatives of the groups proposed that the govt. provide security to the communities sooner than and after balloting.
They additionally demanded their representatives in the national parliament and local govt. Besides, they proposed that balloting in hilly areas be performed on separate days in choice to alongside the rest of the nation.
On the assembly, representatives of oldsters with particular abilities proposed introducing particular measures to help blind voters.
