Let prisoners vote in Ctg

BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday urged the chief election commissioner to take votes from prisoners of Chittagong through special arrangements because, he said,  thousands of activists and leaders of the BNP-led 20-party were now in jail in false cases along with many non-political persons. 

In a letter, the chief election agent of BNP-backed mayoral candidate M Manjur Alam and the Chittagong city unit president of BNP said that in the April 28 city election, the imprisoned persons would not be able to exercise their right to vote despite being the residents of the city. So, special arrangements for taking their votes will protect their basic and constitutional rights, it added.