Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has lodged a police complaint against 19 individuals, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and several former chief election commissioners, accusing them of constitutional violations and electoral misconduct in the past three national elections.

The complaint was submitted on Sunday morning at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in Dhaka by a three-member BNP delegation led by Md Salahuddin Khan, a member of the party's national executive committee.

According to the complaint, those named were allegedly involved in manipulating the 2014, 2018, and 2024 general elections through administrative influence, voter intimidation, and unlawful declarations of election results.

The accused include former Chief Election Commissioners Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmed and KM Nurul Huda, as well as former election commissioners Md Abdul Mubarak, Abu Hafiz, Brig Gen (retd) Jabed Ali, Shah Nawaz, Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam, and Brig Gen Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury.

Other names listed in the complaint are former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Inspectors General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, Benazir Ahmed, AKM Shahidul Haque, and Jabed Patwary, along with former officials of the DGFI, NSI, SB, and Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Two of the intelligence agency chiefs were not named in the complaint.

Md Imaul Haque, officer-in-charge of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, confirmed receiving the complaint. “We will review the contents of the complaint and decide on the next steps,” he told reporters.

Speaking to the media, Salahuddin Khan said the officials who oversaw previous elections "abused constitutional offices to engineer electoral outcomes through intimidation and fraud."

He also claimed that a similar complaint was filed with the Election Commission in 2018 by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, but no action was taken. “This time, we have submitted supporting documents and correspondence along with the complaint to the police,” he said.

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