Khulna, Feb. 4 -- Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retd) on Wednesday urged election officials and law enforcement personnel to perform their duties with honesty, integrity and sincerity, reminding them of the tragic consequences of fascism.

He made the remarks at a meeting on law and order organised by the Khulna Divisional Administration at the conference room of the Khulna Divisional Commissioner's office to ensure the smooth conduct of the national election and referendum-2026.

Over the past 16 years, the adviser said, fascism had taken root through cloudy and biased election processes, in which state machinery was misused.

He said people's voting rights were taken away through a dictatorial system, leading t...