Violence and fear of insecurity before UP elections

With the Union Parishad (UP) elections in partisan lines coming closer, intra-party clashes among and political rivalries among ruling party candidates in absence of challengers from anti-government camps such as BNP at many places are causing sharp deterioration of law and order in the countryside. Political tension and violent clashes have been intruding into the homogeneous rural societies breaking peace and erupting chaos in an otherwise cordial rural social fabrics. The situation is deteriorating ever since the selection of ruling party chairman and councilors candidates in the election to be held under partisan line sending the massage that this election only means for win of the ruling party candidates. So nobody is ready to sacrifice for the other and at many places rival candidates from within the ruling party are facing each other and destroying peace. .
According to a national daily, a pro-ruling party man was killed and 42 were injured in clashes in two upazilas of Patuakhali on Monday. Nonexistence of political opponents in the election campaign and dumbfounded police have create a muddy ground whereby party men can flex muscles. The Election Commission is responsible to ensure a level playing field for a free and fair election. But the EC openly seems to be unwilling to arrange a credible poll, making citizens reluctant to use elections as a method to elect the representative of their choice.
Witnesses said the deceased at Patuakhali was killed while his rival group chopped him with sharp weapons while they were campaigning in a locality. The attack on the campaigners of AL-supported chairman aspirants by rebel-AL also left 22 others injured and police were mainly witness to the mayhem since they don’t want to be party to any group. This is almost a common scene where ruling party men are challenging each other to capture the victory. Local representatives of the EC and law enforcers, who are absolutely obedient to the government, are not giving protection to challengers during campaigning against government nominees while in the fights among ruling party men themselves, they are claiming to be neutral as the situation is deteriorating every day.
The unconscionable reluctance of the EC, its sidetracking of allegations by opposition fielded candidates and their physical harassment has already marked the upcoming polls to be a total drama of the government nominated candidates.
The EC is incompetent and has no care for holding UP or any election free and fair. The Election Commissioners are merely interested in keeping their jobs and not in how to hold fair elections. The government is not giving any importance to the Election Commission.
So violence and fear of safety from the government candidates sway over the UP elections. The elections results will be what is only acceptable to the government.