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Published on November 26, 2015
She was speaking in a meeting of Awami League’s Central Working Committee and Parliamentary Board at Ganabhaban on Thursday.
“It remains to be seen how they (BNP) will fare if they take part in the [municipal] elections. They will harm themselves if they do not,” she said.
All local government elections are going to be held on party lines from now on, starting with the municipal polls slated for Dec 30.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has consulted the leaders of her party and allies in a bid to decide about the stance on the polls.
The party is yet to make any announcement over the municipal elections after it boycotted the 10th Parliament election and polls to the three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong in 2015.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said democracy will flourish if local polls are held on political party lines.
“Let’s see whether [BNP] will take part in the election.”
“I want every political party to take the chance. They will be able to reform their parties by contesting in the polls with their party symbols,” she said in the meeting on Thursday.
She accused the party of applying ‘double standards’ by boycotting the national elections but taking part in the local polls.
The party president also said Awami League needed a formula to nominate candidates for the municipal election.
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