Accusing the government of ‘destroying’ the election system in Bangladesh, Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu on Tuesday said Awami League and democracy cannot get along.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Thursday said the survival of opposition parties has become difficult as people are losing interests in the country’s election system due to lopsided election results.

Describing the January-5, 2014 as a “stigmatised day” in history, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said the government has sent free and fair election system to the museum by holding ‘unilateral’ polls.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday voiced concern that the voter turnout in polls has marked a gradual fall due to people’s apathy for voting and politics.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is trying to weaken further the country’s ‘already devastated’ electoral process in the name of amending the electoral laws.

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Tuesday alleged that there is a ‘hybrid democracy’ now in Bangladesh as the election system has been destroyed here.