Dhaka, May 7 -- The BNP on Tuesday urged the voters not to go to the polling stations tomorrow (Wednesday) to cast their votes in the first phase of Upazila Parishad (UP) polls.

"The upazila polls will start tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be held in four phases. We call upon everyone to tell your relatives, brothers and sisters all over the country not to go to the polling stations," he said.

The BNP leader also said no one should support the dummy elections to the upazila parishads. It's a sham, farcical and fraudulent voting. People won't participate in the polls."

Just a day before the first phase of UP polls, Rizvi came up with the remarks while distributing leaflets-- containing BNP's call to boycott elections-- to pedestrians, veh...