Govt defers DCC polls to avoid defeat: Moudud

18 April 2010, 18:00 PM

DU Correspondent

BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed yesterday said the government and Election Commission (EC) have deferred the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) election to avoid the defeats of the pro-government candidates in the race. "We were totally prepared to face the scheduled election to DCC but the government and EC had differed it to avoid the government's defeat," he said, adding that the countrymen will protest the move one day. Speaking at a roundtable as the chief guest, the BNP leader said the government would not be able to avoid its defeat in the DCC election even after deferring it as the phases of the government's defeat have begun in the country. National Youth Forum, a social organisation, organised the programme at Dhaka Reporters' Unity marking a gunfight between members of BDR and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Boraibari on April 18 in 2001 that left three BDR men killed. Moudud said the government has kept the borders insecure since the bloody carnage occurred at BDR headquarters in the city in February last year. "The independence and sovereignty of a country does not exist when its borders remain insecure." Though a year has passed since the carnage at BDR headquarters, the government is yet to give any statement regarding the border security, the BNP leader said. Quoting a letter sent to him by a resident of Kurigram, he said no BDR member stays at three camps situated at the letter sender's area. A few members of police, Ansar and Rab control the camps. He criticised the government's initiative to change the name and dress of BDR and said that such move cannot be acceptable. BNP leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, former BDR director general Maj Gen (retd) ALM Fazlur Rahman and former lawmaker ATM Gias Uddin also spoke.