Polls irregularities in 47 out of 50 seats: TIB

Hossen Sohel of DOT : 
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says it surveyed 50 parliamentary constituencis during elections and found irregularities in 47 of them, reports The Daily Star.
Irregularities were witnessed in at least one or multiple voting centres across those constituencies, TIB said in a report presented yesterday.
Shahjada M Akram, senior programme manager (research and policy) of the independent thinktank, today revealed the findings at a press conference.
Incidents of irregularities involved lawmen and administration officers playing a silent role, ballot stuffing, fake voting, booth occupation and stamping ballots among others.
TIB found “ballots were stamped on the night before the elections” in at least one or more than one centre in 33 of the 50 constituencies surveyed and “booths were occupied and ballot stuffing” in 30.
The incidents of political clashes, electoral camp vandalism and setting those on fire took place in 19 constituencies, it said.
The opposition party leaders and activists in the constituencies were also implicated with different types of cases, arrested and threatened by the ruling party candidates or by their activists, the report said.
Other incidents of irregularities include lawmen and administrative officers’ a silent role, ballot stuffing, fake voting, booth capturing and stuffing ballots.