Comments on news report

“Rigging spoils AL's image,” published on March 27, 2014

Aasfisarwar
When the CG system was scraped, the intent was clear. As long as AL can hang on to power without people's support, image does not matter. The question remains though, how long?

SM
Well, stuffing ballots and violence was started by AL from the very first election of liberated Bangladesh. (was there any need?) Then it had BAKSAL to make it easier. We remember 90% + voting under the military regimes of Zia and Ershad. Then in '96 and 2014 under BNP and AL. So, we have gone back to our black days -- as Khan Ata said, “Abar Tora Manush Ho”. We have a long way to go to be “manush”.

S.M. Iftekhar Ahmed
Only a 'section' is irked? Shouldn't they all be ashamed or is it too much to ask to overcome their ego?

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“Ban Jamaat” (March 26, 2014)

Komol
Jamaat has emerged as the 3rd largest political party in the upazila elections. Is it justified to ban them?

S.M. Iftekhar Ahmed
Just goes to show that Bangladeshi voters still need to do more research. Jamaat played the religion card for their own benefit and people in the rural areas fell for it. Would they have voted, had they known what Jamaat truly stood for?

Guest
Deport them to the countries that feed them with money and weapon. An elegant religion that had been prominent for science, commerce and its tolerance for other religions became so contentious with prejudiced fanatics that now that some quarters don't hesitate to tag it as 'terroristic'.

S. M. Iftekhar Ahmed
Bangladeshis can be so naive. Just because a party claims to be Islamic doesn't necessarily mean so. Jamaat has been abusing the good name of a peaceful religion like Islam for too long and they have killed innocent people during the Liberation War for their own benefit and amusement.