<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday alleged that the partisan remarks of top police officials have exposed that the government is going to hold another lopsided national election.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“There was a meeting of high-level police officers yesterday (Saturday). An officer's statements in the meeting have gone viral on social media. Hearing his speech, I could not differentiate whether he was a police officer or Shahbag Awami League's publicity secretary,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a human chain programme, the BNP leader said when the senior police officers speak the language of Hasan Mahmud (Information Minister) and the language of the Jubo League and Chhatra League leaders, it gives an impression of how terrible the next election will be.</div><div><br></div><div>“People and voters won’t be able to join that election, let alone the participation of the opposition parties. That election will be one-sided with novelty. A sign of that election process exposed by the partisan speeches given by senior police officers yesterday (Sunday),” he observed.</div><div><br></div><div>Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal’s Dhaka south city unit arranged the human chain programme in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, demanding the release of the organisation’s joint convener Rejaul Karim Rana.</div><div><br></div><div>Rizvi feared that the current police administration will spread panic among voters to discourage them from going to the polling stations and will arrest those who go for electioneering in favour of the opposition parties during the election.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is the partisan police administration. This is how Sheikh Hasina is making a big blueprint of a one-sided election and holding again an election without a mandate (of people),” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the Awami government has got isolated from the entire world as only one or two countries are now with this regime.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they have heard that an influential minister of the Awami League has sent two tonnes of hilsa fish to a journalist in India’s Kolkata to write in favour of the current ‘illegal’ regime in Bangladesh.&nbsp; “We don't know how much of this incident is true. But there is such hearsay.”</div><div><br></div><div>Rizvi said India is a democratic country and there are many conscientious journalists who are writing there for a fair election in Bangladesh. “Maybe one or two journalists can be bought with hilsa fish, but not all of them.”</div><div><br></div><div>He slammed the Detective Branch (DB) of police for arresting Dhaka south city unit BNP acting member secretary Tanveer Ahmed Robin at nightingale crossing in the city in the early hours of Sunday and demanded his immediate release. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>