January 5, 2014 Election
January 56 marks the eighth anniversary of the 10th parliamentary elections without candidates and voters. On this day in 2014, according to the conspiracy of the ruling Awami League, a tainted parliamentary election was held.
The countrymen, the democratic states and organizations of the world, the individuals are shocked to see unprecedented candidates and voterless elections which is unimaginable in a democratic world. The power-hungry clique shamelessly thumbs its finger at the majority of the country’s population. The Bangladeshi nation that snatched independence in 1971 by sacrificing millions of lives to ensure the right to vote, established democracy through a bloody movement in the eighties, was snatched away by the ruling evil forces. In order to create the backdrop for this rigged election, on June 30, 2011, the caretaker government during the election was abolished by the Awami Evil Party, which passed the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution in the National Assembly. The main political party tried unsuccessfully to suppress the democratic organizations including the BNP through disappearances, murders, attacks, cases and arrests. Most of the political parties including Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP did not participate in this election as they realized the rigging of the rigged election. Unprecedented violence took place all over the country around that election. At least 25 people were killed by the ruling party on election day and two days earlier. After the announcement of the election schedule, as there were no rival candidates in 154 seats, the candidates of Awami League and its 14 allied parties were declared the winners which was unprecedented in the democratic history of Bangladesh. As a result of declaring uncontested winner in 154 seats, 4,39,38,936 out of 9,19,75,98 voters across the country got the opportunity to vote in this election.
That is, at first more than half of the fat people were deprived of the opportunity to exercise their voting right. Polling stations in 148 constituencies were empty since morning. No voting took place in 41 centers of some constituencies throughout the day. Although polling stations were empty on polling day, the Election Commission’s results showed an average of 40 per cent turnout. Although the seat-based results were announced, the Election Commission announced the voting rate a few days later. According to a statistic, 162 people were killed in political violence and law enforcement firing after the announcement of the schedule of unilateral elections on November 25, 2013. More than five thousand people were injured. Meanwhile, human rights group Odhikar said in a statement that 149 people were killed and 48 injured in the violence between November 25 and January 3. At that time, 59 people were killed in extrajudicial killings. Source: Manabjamin / January 4, 2015. According to media reports, ballot papers were snatched at various places on the day of the election, and the news of the sealing of the ruling party cadres in public was reported in the media. Even the presiding officers have done so. Although most of the polling stations were without voters, the presiding officers were seen sleeping in the morning, but this election gave rise to incredible events like ballot box filling in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has been saying that no one has recognized this government of the tenth parliament. They (government) went door to door but did not get 5 percent of the vote in the January 5 election. He added that the people had spontaneously boycotted the one-party election, rejecting the mock vote with hatred.
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