city elections
Gazipur City Polls: AL focuses on mending infighting
With the campaigns for the Gazipur city polls resuming yesterday, the ruling Awami League wants to focus on resolving internal divisions as the party leaders say it's the organisational unity...
AL picks mayor candidates in three cities
The Awami League has picked AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran and Serniabat Sadek Abdullah as its mayoral candidates for Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal city elections respectively.
Gazipur City Polls: AL focuses on mending infighting
With the campaigns for the Gazipur city polls resuming yesterday, the ruling Awami League wants to focus on resolving internal divisions as the party leaders say it's the organisational unity...
Gazipur City Polls: BNP to keep close watch
The BNP will keep a close eye on the Gazipur city polling stations the night before the voting day and try to assemble party men outside to guard the centres during polling as part of its new...
Losing faith in electoral processes
No elections in a democratic world are perfect, be it in a liberal or an emerging democracy.
See no evil, hear no evil…..
IT is difficult to accept the comments of the CEC that the three city corporation elections were held in a fair and peaceful manner and that there were no threats or anomalies.
Unprecedented attack on journalists
IT is disquieting to see that the media was conspicuously barred from properly covering the city polls.
Witnessing another ELECTION CHARADE
STUFFING of ballot boxes whether in national or local elections is nothing new in Bangladesh.
An election marred
WHAT started off as a peaceful, tension-free day of voting, turned out to be a disappointment for the city dwellers of Dhaka and Chittagong.
Another 'election'?
IN these very columns we had carried an article with a similar heading following the farcical January 5, 2013 elections. Regrettably, we have to say the same about yesterday's mayoral election...
