Bangladesh government has not taken any initiative yet to get the
names of Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar beach back in the new 7 wonders
of the world competition after the country's two natural sites were
dropped by the organisers on charges of 'vote rigging and
manipulation.'
The organisers, however, said if vote manipulation and rigging can
be checked, names of the two wonders of Bangladesh would be brought
back in the race.
The names of Cox's Bazar and Sundarbans, which were in first and
second position respectively in the competition, were dropped on
September 3.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Tourism Promotion Association (BTPA) in a
press release yesterday blamed indifferences and failures of the
government, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) and Orascom
Telecom Bangladesh Ltd (Banglalink), official sponsor for the
promotion activities of Cox's Bazar, behind dropping out of the
names.
"BPC's ignorance about the rules and regulations of the competition
has caused the present situation. And unknowingly BPC itself held
promotional programmes which were considered as manipulation of vote
to the organisers," said Julius Chowdhury, chairman of BTPA.
The release said the government and the BPC were requested to form a
national committee to coordinate the promotional activities under a
fixed policy through a roundtable discussion at Cirdap auditorium on
July 15 but the government did not pay any attention to it.
There should have been separate sponsors for the three nominees of
Bangladesh--Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar and Ganges--in the competition.
Only Banglalink became a license holder of promotional campaign from
the organisers while campaign for the rest two wonders was conducted
unknowingly, sources said.
They explained that BPC on different occasions inspired vote
manipulation and rigging by different unknown and unauthorised
bodies while Banglalink also did not make clear the terms and
conditions of the promotional activities.
In accordance with the rules, BPC is entrusted with the job to
campaign for Cox's Bazar while Forest Department for Sundarbans and
Shipping Ministry for Ganges. But BPC campaigned for both Cox's
Bazar and Sundarbans while the responsible departments did not make
any move for respective work, sources said.
The BTPA release also mentioned that unknowingly BPC recently
published as notification in a national daily asking people to vote
for the wonders of Bangladesh through www.vote 4 bangladesh.com,
which has no authority to collect vote or carry out promotional
activities.
Sources said that websites like Pabna.info, and applications
regarding voting for Bangladeshi wonders in facebook are
manipulating and rigging vote.
The websites have a selected a list of seven or more wonders of the
world and a person cannot cast vote except that seven names and
organisers of the competition have found out.
Julius also said that Akij Food and Beverage (Lemu) illegally used
logo of the organisers in campaign for Cox's Bazar though only
license holder can use the logo while the other can conduct campaign
without using logo.
"The government have not taken a policy or formulated a national
committee to have an organised voting which is not impossible at
all. And now though the names were dropped three days back the
government has not taken any decision yet or any measure to stop the
unauthorised promotional activities," said Julius.
Source:
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=53687
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