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Election manifestos,pledges and practice
The political parties unveiled their manifestos. It all started with SK. Hasina, declaring AL manifesto on 12th in this month in Hotel Sheraton in the presence of party leaders, foreign dignitaries, journalists and many other invitees and live on the...
Grassroots recommendation,political parties & ultimate nomination
One of the steps taken by the Election Commission arouses glimpse of hope in the minds of ordinary citizens is the regulation to selecting the ultimate candidate for parliamentary election from the proposal of grassroots members of the party. Accor...
RPO clause 90/e, Election Commission and political parties
Political parties were against the imposition of RPO. The RPO was revised persistant pressure from the political parties. They were technically bound to accept the RPO by the Election Commission as a part of the registration process of the part...
BNP shouldn’t boycott the general election
BNP is still in dilemma whether to join the general election or not. The permanent committee of BNP sat yesterday to discuss over the matter but they couldn’t come to a decision. The meeting urged the government to accept BNP’s 7 point d...
Re-demarcation of the constituencies, the critics & the ultimate judgment
Election Commission was insisting on the re-demarcation of the constituencies from the beginning. It argues that re-demarcation is the constitutional obligation on the Election Commission which was not done over many years. Re-demarcation is necessar...
On dilemma over the registartion of political parties with the Election Commission
Election Commission has set the time limit for the registration of the political parties 15th October 2008. EC also set some preconditions for the registration of the political parties. EC has gone through 3 phases of dialogue over the last months on...
Election Commission in Bangladesh: from command to compromise
The Election Commission will sit tomorrow with BNP and its two allies-Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Oikko Jote. Both the allies of BNP had refused earlier to sit with the Election Commission and missed their date though they sat with the EC in its fir...
Bangladesh politics takes an abrupt turn
Khaleda Zia has been released as was earlier announced by an adviser. Thousands of people waited outside the subjail to receive her, she then gone to BSMMU to see her son Tarek Zia in ailing bed in the hospital, thousands of people also flocked there...
Will the general election be deferred in Bangladesh?
Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed has reassured the countrymen that the general election will be held by December 2008. AL, on the other hand, is advocating for holding the general election in October instead of Upazilla election. BNP not still...
Why AL is against Upazilla election though there is chance of winning?
Both the election commission and the government are willing to hold the upazilla election in October 2008 before the national election. But major political parties -AL and BNP are against the October elections. Their leaders in different forums repea...
Will political parties be able to avoid upazilla elections?
Elections in 300 upazillas out of 482 will be held in October, 2008, EC declared. The political parties reacted against the declaration. AL said that they will not particiate in the upazilla elections before the general election. They will approach t...
Is credible election possible under emergency rule?
Will General Election under emergency be possible ? As the General Election is closing, a debate is growing whether general election under emergency rule will be possible or impossible, and if it is possible will it be credible. The major political ...
Major political parties of Bangladesh are not yet ready for any change in democratic practice
Our major political parties of Bangladesh AL and BNP are not yet ready for big changes in democracy. AL is not yet decided to go to political dialogue , the government initiated to develop rapport with the political parties and to develop consensus...
‘Understanding’ the ’strategies’ of the present political forces in Bangladesh
The political parties didn’t respond to the address of the Chief Adviser(CA) of the caretaker Government(CTG) Dr. Fakhruddin Ali A as was expected by the people and the intelligentsia. It is become difficult for the ordinary citizen to understand t...
