Jashore, Feb. 2 -- BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday urged people across the country to remain alert, warning that efforts are underway to obstruct the upcoming election, make it controversial and manipulate the results through election engineering, particularly during vote counting.

"A political party has become desperate to make the election controversial and obstruct it. You must stay extremely alert and vigilant," he said while addressing a massive election rally at Jashore Upashahar Degree College ground in the afternoon.

The BNP chief also alleged that a particular political party is trying to sabotage the electoral process and deliberately create confusion to open the door for manipulation.

"We are hearing that counting of v...