The BNP yesterday alleged that ruling party men captured over 100 voting centres and stuffed ballots in the elections to Gazipur City Corporation. "As per the information we've received so far, over 100 polling stations have been captured ...a grand festival of fake voting is going on," said party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

Speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office in the late afternoon, he also alleged that their party mayoral candidate's polling agents have been forced out of many centres by ruling party men with the help of police. The BNP leader also said their party's mayoral candidate Hasan Uddin Sarker's chief election agent Sohrab Uddin lodged various complaints with the returning officer, but no action has been taken yet in this regard.

Rizvi alleged police were playing the role of ruling party cadres in the polls. He alleged that their candidates' some polling agents were arrested from different voting centres while pro-BNP voters were not allowed to enter some police stations.