Police-aided ballot stuffing!
- Rajakar Solaiman
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min read
The ruling party supporters were seen stuffing ballot boxes from 1:45pm to 2:15pm at Gulshan Model School and College in Dhaka yesterday.
They did it at booth no. 1 on the first floor while law enforcers and election officials were present, witnessed a correspondent of The Daily Star.
After seeing this at 1:45pm, the correspondent left the scene and returned again at 2:15pm. Al Amin, a sub-inspector who was blocking the entry, allowed him access without a camera. The police officer followed the reporter and signalled the youths stuffing the ballot boxes with a shout, “Go out... go out...”
Police on duty at Government Titumir College, which housed three centres, held back voters in long queues for hours saying the centres would be crowded otherwise.
They allowed only 10 voters at a time.
The voters in the queues said they were waiting for more than three hours at the college gate.
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The main entrance to Morgan Girls School in the city remained shut since 11:30am with more than 100 voters waiting in the queue outside. One of the voters said at 1:30pm the gate remained closed for two hours.
A correspondent saw four women locked in an altercation with the armed police members at the gate as they were furious from hours of waiting.
As the correspondent wanted to enter the centre, police stopped him saying it was lunch time for polling officials. This further enraged the voters, who alleged that police even chased some of them away.
“Police chased us again and again. It seems we have come here to commit a crime,” said an aggrieved voter.
Around 60/70 voters were still waiting to cast their votes; they lost their patience around 4:00pm and started desperately knocking on the gate. Three police vehicles led by Narayanganj Sadar police Officer-in-Charge Kamrul Islam arrived on the scene immediately and dispersed them.
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