Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today said the Election Commission is largely responsible for destroying the country’s democracy.

“I am demanding that those who are responsible for violating constitutional system should be brought to book,” he told a press conference organized by Agriculturists Association of Bangladesh (AAB) at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital.  

Castigating the chief election commissioner (CEC), who resigned today, Rizvi said: “You singlehandedly declared the results of the elections of robbery and seizure. Why didn’t you resign at that time? Your job was superior to you, didn’t you think about the country and the state?”

The BNP leader said a dangerous monster was ousted in Bangladesh through the movement of children-juvenile which stunned the world.

BNP, 20-party alliance and other like-minded alliances were waging this movement continuously, he said, adding that dictator Sheikh Hasina was deposed on August 5.

Supporting the cohorts of autocrat is tantamount to betray the blood of martyrs, he said.

“BNP is such a political party which is deeply engaged with independence and democracy. We have respect to all religions,” he added.