DOT Desk
The law enforcement agencies remain on high alert in the capital and across the country to ensure a congenial atmosphere for polls, reports The Daily Star.
As part of the move, all additional inspector generals, deputy inspector generals, superintendents of police have been asked to remain alert so that no vested quarters can commit any kind of sabotage to foil the election, according to detective sources.
Similarly, all intelligence branches have been instructed to keep a close watch on the citizenry activities.
Alongside political parties, law enforcers are also keeping surveillance on the movement of different voluntary organisations.
The intelligence agencies are also watching the movement of different transport and garment workers’ union leaders and sending warning messages to them.
To avoid any possible unrest, all garment industry owners and other voluntary organisations have been asked to pay their workers’ wages in time.
Due to non-payment of the wages in time, if any unrest takes place, its owners and union leaders concerned would be held responsible.
The intelligence officials are also warning some rival candidates of political parties, asking them not to resort to any violence in their respective electoral areas.
Failing to get nominations from their parties, some aspiring candidates and their supporters went on the rampage, blocking roads and highways at different parts of the country.
On Friday night, deprived BNP aspirants and their supporters swooped on the party chairperson’s Gulshan office.
The agitated supporters also went ransacked the office and confined its senior leaders.
BNP leaders and activists did the same at other parts of the country including Munshiganj and Rangpur.
Md Moniruzzaman, additional deputy Inspector General (Intelligence), said recently: “We will do everything for the sake of maintaining congenial atmosphere for the election.”
“Our police force is now active in the fields to maintain law and order situation.”
Replying to a question, the official opined that the overall law and order situation in the country is under full control.
Amid tight security, a festive election atmosphere is now prevailing in the country, he claimed.
Law enforcers including police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) took position on the streets in the capital and other parts of the country as soon as the election schedule was announced.
Simultaneously, members of different intelligence branches are also keeping a close watch on the leaders and activists of the BNP-Jamaat alliance who were also involved in anarchies in 2013 and 2014.
As part of their blueprints, the Jamaat-Shibir militants who went into hiding in the face of massive operation by law enforcers have reportedly started coming out of their hideouts and are reorganising themselves to cause more mayhem in the country.
The Jamaat-Shibir men took to the streets, started vandalism, made arson attacks and attacked law enforcers at different parts of the country including Dhaka, Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Bogra and Chittagong that left at least eight policemen killed and more than 300 others injured.