By-election
The recently held by-election of Dhaka-10 constituency broke all the past records of rigging and false casting of votes. The government has failed completely to hold the election in a free, fair, and neutral atmosphere. And perhaps the present government has to pay the price for the massive irregularities which really symbolise the death of democracy. While most of the organisations and observers believe that there were rigging and false votes, the government is alone in singing its own rhymes that the election was held in a free and fair manner. How can people disbelieve what they have watched or read in TV channels and newspapers after the election? Though the candidate of the four party alliance won the election, the alliance has lost the credibility which the people of Bangladesh had in it during the general elections of 2001.Now the government's path has become full of thorns.
There is no doubt that Mr. Falu won the by-election, but at the cost of his party's image. It was a bad bargain, of course, on the part of the government.
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