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Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has said that this election is down even more than the 11th parliamentary election. He stated that the election was not participatory at all.
He made the demand while speaking to reporters at his office in the Elections Building in Agargaon on Thursday (November 12).
Mahbub Talukder said: ‘From 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, I visited 70 positions in 14 electoral districts of Nikunj, Khilkhet and Uttara in the Dhaka-17 electoral district by-election. Looking at the general situation of the election, I have the idea that this election is down even more than the last election of the eleventh National Assembly. The election was not participatory at all. I have not seen any opposition voters in any of the centers. Khilkhet, the only primary school in the model Kurmitola government, saw the presence of female electoral agents in a booth at the polling station. Party posters, banners and billboards were seen throughout the constituency, which should have been removed before the elections according to the code of conduct. I don’t think the election is just a victory or a defeat for the candidate or the party.
“Elections are the only way to democracy,” he said. The transfer of power cannot be normal unless the elections are free, fair, neutral, participatory and acceptable. When elections are not fair and acceptable, they increase the stability, social instability and individual frustration of the country. As a result, there is a danger of creating anarchy out of despair. The tendency to anarchy is not at all desirable for any democratic country. I hope to reform the electoral process, otherwise the country could move towards an uncertain destination.
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