The government will carry out key administrative reshuffles ahead of the upcoming national election and will provide specialised training to around 150,000 police personnel to ensure proper execution of polls duties.
Only credible and experienced observers will be allowed to monitor the polls, he says
People don’t want to see politics being hogged by time-tested politicians who have failed people’s expectations time and again.
Among the priorities for the upcoming 13th parliamentary elections is the long-overdue enfranchisement of approximately 10 million Bangladeshi expatriates.
Abdul Moyeen Khan, a member of BNP's highest decision-making body, in an interview with Reuters says his party wants elections this year
Survey says BNP leads with 41.7%, but data is from a fraction of total sample.
Around 58 percent of participants in a recent survey said they want the national elections to be held before the end of this year.
If voted to power, the BNP would form a government of national unity and ensure representation from the parties that would participate in the polls and those who protested against the last autocratic regime, said the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday.
Sixty-five percent of the people favour local government elections before the next national polls under the interim government, a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics study has found
Joint forces early today detained a panel mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) on charge of intimidating voters in Sagarpara area of the city
Job creation, good governance that will ensure stability, are expected from the new govt, says a top business leader
You’ve already met the dummy candidates, aka independents. Now, meet dummy voters.
The ruling Awami League is desperately trying to showcase the polls as inclusive and competitive.
As the country is heading towards an exercise that the incumbent is calling an election, it is imperative that we understand what is in the making.
The BNP failed to reap anything effective from the huge public support that it was able to garner late last year.
Bereft of the basic rights to assemble and express, let alone protest, the people of Bangladesh are currently bearing the brunt of the coercive apparatuses of the state.
On November 22, Russian foreign ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova in her weekly briefing said information had come to light regarding a meeting between US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas and a high-ranking representative of the local opposition at the end of October.
Given the attitudes of Awami League and BNP as Bangladesh election draws closer, there is no reason for one to feel hopeful about having a peaceful and participatory election.
The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday held a rally in the capital’s Arambagh despite police’s announcement earlier that the Islamist party would not be allowed to organise any gathering.
