Delete fake voters from list

The government has prepared a fake voter list to cling to power, he said while addressing a public meeting at Nakaihat High School ground to campaign for his party candidate in by-election in Gaibandha-4 constituency. He also addressed gatherings at Baneshwer, Kamdia Bazar and Panitola.

Ershad said all fake voters must be dropped from the list to make the next parliamentary election credible.

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He said the Gaibandha-4 by-election will be an acid test for the government. He claimed that the JP candidate will win the polls race if it is held in a fair way.

This government has already lost people's support. They will try to rig the by-election, he alleged and urged the people and his party men to be prepared to foil any such attempt by the ruling party.

He criticised both the ruling four-party alliance and the opposition 14-party alliance led by Awami League, saying they failed to do any good to the people.

People's sufferings mounted under the present government as it could not resolve any of their problems. Besides price hike of essentials, crises of fuel, electricity and fertiliser have made people's life miserable, the former president said.

People are now fed up with the government's misrule and rise of Islamist militants, he said.

This should not be allowed to continue. He called upon the people to vote for JP candidate Lutfar Rahman Chowdhury in the by-election to be held on May 9.

Presided over by Lutfar Rahman Chowdhury, president of Gobindaganj upazila Jatiya Party, the meeting was addressed by, among others, JP secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, former foreign minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, Golam Habib Dulal, MP, Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, Abdur Rashid Sarker and former MP Wahiduzaman Sarker.