The political culture that has been bred in the country by the ruling party is one of impunity, where party members are, directly or indirectly, encouraged to violently suppress dissenting voices. The slapping of Inamul Haque is merely a result of that attitude.

What game do our political leaders plan to play?

In the current environment, it is the ruling party that has been seen in the offensive.

Can citizens be told that their rights are now available because the executive branch of the state is offering them as a gift?

It is apparent, from what has transpired in the last fortnight, that any attempt to exercise political rights, and to seek space, will be curbed by force.

Where is the level playing field promised by the EC?

Election Commission (EC) has assured of investigating all incidents of violence during today’s general election that saw deaths of at least 17 people.

Three persons are shot during a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Chittagong College campus in the port city.

A man is killed and five others are injured as two factions of local Awami League locked into clashes over establishing supremacy in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur.

A Chittagong court orders police to quiz BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury at the jail gate in an explosive case.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia says the law enforcers including Rab and police members, who were involved in the incidents of forced disappearances and killings, will be brought to justice.

Journalist Shawkat Mahmud is released on bail from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur.

A Dhaka court grants bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Police presses charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 42 others in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Supporters of nomination hopefuls go on rampage and vandalised local Awami League office in Chittagong ahead of the upcoming union parishad elections.

Political violence remains inseparable from Bangladeshi politics and election violence is an integral part of that violence.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of charges against BNP’s senior leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Moudud Ahmed and 34 other party men for hurling crude bombs at policemen in March 2013.

A local leader of Workers Party of Bangladesh is shot dead allegedly by outlaws in Atghoria upazila of Pabna this evening.

Ilias Biswas cannot afford to stay at home.

For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports. Some lost their loved ones, others their lone bread earners during the longest spell of horror allegedly carried out by the BNP-led coalition, protesting the January 5, 2014, elections.