‘Farce polls, CEC knows turnout beforehand’

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh 12th national election is a farce, said an Indian expert.
The comments was made by Indian-born Swedish academic and writer Ashok Swain.

He is a professor of peace and conflict research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

On Sunday at 2 pm Ashok Swain his X handle (former twitter) wrote, Today (Sunday) Bangladesh 12th parliamentary polls. After dissolving caretaker government from constitution in 2011.

It is the third consecutive deceptive polls in Bangladesh lead by Sheikh Hasina. She comments about main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) as a terrorist party.

He said BNP has boycotted this farce election. Before vote Chief Election Commission knows how many percentage of votes were caste. What a funny.

He further said despite everything, voters’ turnout in Bangladesh election today is below 40%. The free & fair election under a neutral caretaker government had been held last time in Bangladesh in 2008 – Voters turnout was 87.13%. So, majority of Bangladeshi voters has boycotted the election.