His criticism came a day after the commission hosted a Pitha Utsab (winter pie festival) and a barbecue at its offices in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Thursday.
Rizvi called the move ‘barbaric’ while speaking at a media briefing in Dhaka on Friday. “They’re celebrating the murder of democracy the way barbarians used to celebrate the hunting of animals."
He called the Election Commissioner headed by Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda ‘shameless’. “That’s why they are capable of doing this. They have no accountability