West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made this allegation publicly. Without any objection, he said that such surveys were conducted under the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. He said, “These surveys are being used to show BJP’s victory. Their purpose is to break the morale of the opposition.” […]
BNP did not accept the election results in Pabna-3 (Chatmohar-Bhangura-Faridpur) and Pabna-4 (Ishwari-Atgharia) constituencies. In protest against this, their leaders and workers surrounded the office of the Deputy Commissioner and the District Election Officer from Friday afternoon and demanded re-counting of the votes. According to the District Returning Officer’s office, a total of eight candidates […]
Noorjahan Begum, resident of Rupsha Union, said that she has been married for 45 years. He did not vote during that time. When asked why she was voting now, she said, “Everyone says that you women go to the market, work, do everything, so why should you not vote? Voting is not forbidden in Islam. […]
Some voters at the center appeared confused about the referendum. Some people were seen asking what the referendum ballot was for, what they were supposed to do with it and where to cast it. According to some voters, this confusion has affected the time spent inside the polling booth. Meanwhile, at the Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training […]
Voters started arriving at polling stations from Thursday morning to cast their votes in the 13th National Parliamentary Elections and Referendum. As the hours passed, the presence of voters outside the centers steadily increased. Visiting several polling stations in Dhaka-11 constituency, including parts of Rampura, Badda, Bhatara and Hatirjheel in the capital, similar scenes were […]
Importantly, civic responsibility does not end at the ballot box. Voting is the beginning of democratic participation, not its conclusion. A responsible voter remains attentive, critical and vocal and demands accountability from those elected. Accountability is not a favor bestowed by rulers; It is a duty that they must fulfill. In a democracy, informed citizens […]
Silent, empty polling station On election day, 7 January, voter turnout was very low at most centers in Dhaka and other major cities. At many centres, no polling agents were seen except those representing candidates using the boat symbol. Even the Chief Election Commissioner himself said after casting his vote that he did not find […]
A total of 379,924 postal ballots sent by registered overseas voters through the “Postal Vote BD” app for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections and referendum have so far reached Bangladesh. Salim Ahmed Khan, leader of the OCV-SDI project team on Overseas Voter Registration, told BSS today, Thursday, that the ballot papers were received […]
A discussion by the Center for Governance Studies (CGS) recently revealed that minority voters could be a factor in elections in about 80 constituencies. Yet, out of 2,017 candidates from parties and independents, only 80 candidates are from minority communities, while 12 candidates are contesting as independents. Although 51 political parties are participating in this […]
Of these, 415,762 ballot papers were deposited in post offices or post boxes abroad, he said, and 157,798 have arrived in Bangladesh so far. Domestically, the Election Commission (EC) has sent postal ballots to 580,968 registered voters (ICPVs) inside the country. According to Election Commission data, till 11:00 am on Sunday, 24,091 voters had received […]
Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Habibul Awal said that voting in the third phase of upazila parishad elections on Wednesday was satisfactory. The Chief Election Commissioner said that the voting rate could be more or less than 35 per cent. However, he said that it will take some time to get the actual information.