PANCHAGARH, Feb 5, 2026 (BSS) - National Citizen Party (NCP) Chief Organiser for Northern Region and the 11-party alliance candidate for Panchagarh-1 Sarjis Alam today urged voters to cast their ballots in favour of candidates whose leadership and grassroots activists uphold integrity and public respect.

"The upcoming election will decide whether people will continue to face threats and intimidation or be able to live with dignity," he told at an election campaign at the Chanpara Mandir ground area under Panchagarh Municipality this afternoon.

Sarjis said voters should support those candidates and parties where 'from leaders to grassroots workers, everyone is good,' adding that people must vote for the platform that ensures freedom from oppression, fear, and harassment.

Sarjis said he was not directly asking for votes for himself but called on voters-particularly members of the Hindu community-to reflect on which parties' activists had been involved in extortion, syndicates, and intimidation in Panchagarh over the past one and a half years.

"If such wrongdoing is committed by NCP or Jamaat activists, then they should not be voted for. But if others are responsible, they must be rejected," he said.

He also noted that MPs and ministers often stay outside their constituencies, while people have to deal daily with local leaders and activists.

"If leaders from district to ward level are not good, the people of the district cannot live well," Sarjis said, reiterating that voters must choose the place where leaders and activists alike are good.