… will be rigged.
AL allowed fair elections in most municipalities because it thought it would win them. Even after BNP did so well in the initial stages of the municipal elections, AL didn’t rig them because it wanted to show that it can be trusted with free and fair elections. How else will it do away with the caretaker system?
But the mask came off on the last day, when it rigged Noakhali. AL just couldn’t handle the truth that it was no longer all that popular. And the same dynamic will come to play tomorrow. Official results will show that AL wins these seats by a bigger margin than it did in 2008. Unofficially, it will be 1973 all over again.
AL need not worry about getting rid of the caretaker system. It has Khairul Haque.
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January 26, 2011 at 10:21 pm
There may be one simple question. Very simple. Why government was so adamant in not letting army deployed for the polls? What was the problem with that— it is not unprecedented to deploy army in polls in Bangladesh. Army was deployed in many centers in recently concluded local government elections.
January 28, 2011 at 10:46 am
Now what would you say? They rigged Brahmanbaria but not Sylhet? Or their popularity in sylhet is so low that even afetr rigging they could not win? Stop your bulshit blind analysis and do some constructive criticism man. Their is nothing to be so bitter about. Dont let me bring Magura and others to compare the two parties. Even with all its flaws and mistakes, it will take more efforts by the AL to come to the level of BNP. Chill down.
January 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Rigging just as Sheikh Hasina wants to fulfill her father dream of one party -Bakshal rule.
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An hour at 3 polling centres in B’baria, no BNP agent found
Abdullah Juberee . Brahmanbaria
It was around 11:30am and there was a huge crowd outside Basudeb Bahumukhi Uchcha Bidyalay polling centre on the periphery of Brahmanbaria 3 constituency.
Seeing newsmen, a local youth, Nasir, approached them saying the ruling party men had occupied the centre and were stuffing ballot boxes.
He failed to complete the sentence as the supporters of Awami League cordoned him off and began shouting that nothing happened and voting was continuing peacefully. Nasir was shouting at his highest pitch to raise his protests, but failed.
Inside the centre, the scene was totally reverse, only seven people were standing on a queue before a polling booth.
The presiding officer, Mirza Galib Rumi, said he was not aware of any kind of fraudulence or stuffing of boxes. By noon more than 1,100 out of 1,977 votes at the centre were cast.
No agent of the BNP candidate was seen at the booths. Mirza Galib said they were present in the morning and he did not know where they had gone.
Around noon, the BNP candidate Khalid Hossain Mahbub reached the centre and found none of his agents there. He went to the presiding officer’s room and asked him to register his compliant, but the presiding officer declined, saying he could not receive it without the consent of high-ups.
At one stage of arguments, he asked the BNP candidate to leave the centre. And police soon whisked Khalid out of the room.
Mirza Galib said he did not push out the BNP candidate, but the law enforcers led him away. He said he was not aware of the rules whether he was authorized to accept any complaint from a candidate and that was why he had declined to accept the complaint.
The BNP candidate demanded suspension of polling at the centre and re-election there.
At Chapair Senior Madrassah centre, no queue was seen at 1:00pm. No polling agent of the BNP candidate was there either. The BNP candidate alleged that Awami League-backed goons had stuffed ballots at the centre.
The presiding officer, Khalilur Rahman, said there were some troubles outside the centre, but the situation was peaceful inside. He ruled out incidents of stuffing ballots but admitted few false votes might have been cast.
About the absence of BNP polling agents, he said they had left the centre without informing him. ‘They had come in the morning and all of a sudden I found they were gone,’ he said.
Chinair Anjuman Ara School and College centre was the largest centre with 3,128 voters. Long queues of enthusiast women voters were seen there at around 11:00am and they said they were waiting on line for more than one and a half hour to cast their votes.
Inside the polling booths at the centre, no agent of BNP was seen. At the women’s booth, Awami League agents were seen taking the voters to the enclosure and stamping the ballot in her presence.
Huge number of activists and leaders of Awami League were milling around at the school ground. Though police were trying to disperse them, but they did not care.
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/frontpage/6750.html
January 28, 2011 at 8:28 pm
“It has Khairul Haque.”
What is the guarantee that Khairul Haque’s fate won’t be like KM Hasan’s?
January 29, 2011 at 11:32 pm
First, AL was leading in Habiganj by 50,000 votes.
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AL takes lead in Habiganj
Thu, Jan 27th, 2011 8:48 pm BdST
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Habiganj, Jan 27 (bdnews24.com) — The Awami League candidate has taken lead with a good margin in the Habiganj-1 by-elections.
“Mushfiq Hossain Chowdhury is leading by 53,081 votes as results came in from 115 centres,” returning officer and deputy election commissioner Mohammad Emran said around 8pm on Thursday.
Mushfiq’s nearest rival BNP candidate Sheikh Sujat Miyah has got 51,679 votes so far, the returning officer said.
There are 175 polling centres in the constituency.
The seat fell vacant following the death of Awami League MP Dewan Farid Gazi.
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=185757&cid=2
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And then, a lead of 50,000 votes evaporated in less than an hour.
BNP takes Habiganj 1
Thu, Jan 27th, 2011 9:22 pm BdST
Habiganj, Jan 27 (bdnews24.com) — BNP candidate Sheikh Sujat Miah has beaten his rival from the ruling Awami League to win Habiganj-1 by-elections.
Sujat beat Mushfiq Hossain Chowdhury by 1,285 votes in a close contest after trailing for a considerable time.
Sujat bagged 81,330 votes, while Chowdhury got 80,045.
Returning officer Mohammad Emran Miah made the announcement on Thursday at the constituency soon after announcing that the ruling party’s candidate was leading with a handsome margin of 53,081 votes according to the results of 115 centres.
There are 175 polling centres in the constituency with 301,447 voters.
The seat had fallen vacant after the death of Awami League MP Dewan Farid Gazi. Gazi had beaten Sujat Miah by 72,592 votes.
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=185761&cid=2