national polls 2024
Opinion / What comes after January 7?
If AL’s victory in the 2014 election was a hollow one, the 2024 victory in the making is nothing short of a Pyrrhic one—a victory which inflicts so much damage that it cannot be considered worthwhile.
Opinion / Could 2024 mark the end of crony economy and captive politics?
Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.
Banks to remain closed on January 7 for polls
Banks will remain closed on January 7 to help bankers and other employees of lenders cast their votes
Polls Monitoring / EC to invite 42 countries
The Election Commission has decided to invite election management bodies from 42 countries to observe the upcoming parliamentary polls.
EC meeting with political parties / Dialogue or mere formality?
How practical or efficient was it to attempt dialogue with 20 political parties at once?
No big obstacles to holding national polls, top law enforcement officials tell EC
Top law enforcement officials today informed the Election Commission that there were no big obstacles to arranging the upcoming national election
What should and shouldn’t happen in Oct 28 rallies
It cannot be ignored that the nation came to this day because a path to hold a fair election is absent, and that the current system of governance has undermined the citizens’ right to exercise their inalienable right to vote.
EC invites applications for int’l observers by Nov 21
The EC gives great importance to the observation of the election process for the sake of transparency, it said today in a notice
Talking is the only way out
When dialogue fails, confrontation becomes inevitable.
What comes after January 7?
If AL’s victory in the 2014 election was a hollow one, the 2024 victory in the making is nothing short of a Pyrrhic one—a victory which inflicts so much damage that it cannot be considered worthwhile.
Could 2024 mark the end of crony economy and captive politics?
Politics has been captured by the nexus of an oligopoly of business interests and the willingly colluding political class.
Banks to remain closed on January 7 for polls
Banks will remain closed on January 7 to help bankers and other employees of lenders cast their votes
EC to invite 42 countries
The Election Commission has decided to invite election management bodies from 42 countries to observe the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Dialogue or mere formality?
How practical or efficient was it to attempt dialogue with 20 political parties at once?
No big obstacles to holding national polls, top law enforcement officials tell EC
Top law enforcement officials today informed the Election Commission that there were no big obstacles to arranging the upcoming national election
What should and shouldn’t happen in Oct 28 rallies
It cannot be ignored that the nation came to this day because a path to hold a fair election is absent, and that the current system of governance has undermined the citizens’ right to exercise their inalienable right to vote.
EC invites applications for int’l observers by Nov 21
The EC gives great importance to the observation of the election process for the sake of transparency, it said today in a notice
Talking is the only way out
When dialogue fails, confrontation becomes inevitable.
US team calls for dialogue on polls
The US pre-election assessment mission yesterday recommended dialogue between political parties in order to hold a credible, inclusive and peaceful election in Bangladesh.
