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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Election that could be avoided
As a young citizen of Bangladesh, I have always been against the violence carried out during hartals and blockades, targeting common people. Whether those are carried out by BNP, Jamaat, or Awami League, we do not know. But the ultimate victims of this violence are the common people of Bangladesh. However, the ruling party has remained oblivious to the sufferings of the common people, and made little efforts to initiate dialogues, which could have prevented loss of many innocent lives and saved billions ofTaka. Instead, they have gone ahead with a one-party January 5 election where 153 candidates have been elected uncontested. Had Awami League cared for the people, they would have deferred the polls, as suggested by the civil society, and arranged an acceptable election. We are unfortunate that we live in a country where fighting for power is the only thing the parties do.
Tauhidul Islam
A-Level candidate
Uttara, Dhaka
Blame with proof
Khaleda Zia has been blaming the government for torching buses, burning people alive, destroying vehicles, cutting trees and derailing trains during the BNP-called blockades. Does she have proof or evidence of this? If she does, then by all means, she should make them public. She has also blamed the government for killing of army officers during the BDR massacre. Is this a fact by evidence?
Confining people to their homes and not allowing them to go on with their daily lives is also not democracy, not just when she was not allowed to leave her house on December 29 to attend her " Long March". 1 wonder how she felt to be "blocked.”
Aminur Rahim
NetvDOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka
What awaits Bangladesh's democracy?
The precondition for democracy is a free and fair election. But our government does not believe in it. Without paying any heed to the opponents' demands, they held a one-sided election, which proved that they are moving towards autocracy. We are at pain to see the fate of democracy in Bangladesh. People should raise their voice against such wrongdoing.
Md. Lutfur Rahman
Chandipasha, Nandail, Mytnensingh
Comments on news report, "Election amid fears today," published on January 05, 2014
Na Vote
The 10th national parliamentary election is not acceptable to me.
Thor
How can you call it an election?
SM
I wish Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia listened to U2's song "Ordinary Love" from the movie "Mandela- Long walk to freedom": "We can't fall any further if we can't feel ordinary love; And we can't reach any higher if we can't deal with ordinary love..." Both these ladies are devoid of love, and their hate for each other will destroy Bangladesh further.
"An MP's lesson on rigging votes" (January 03, 2014)
Jafar Iqbal
This is the reason why the whole nation never trusted Sheikh Hasina as the chief of poll-time government.
Ash C.
No one should be surprised if this 'brilliant' Awami strategist is rewarded with an important post in AL!
Nasreen Chowdhury
I would say this is the strategy of this one-sided non-participatory election. End this charade and come to a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
Saleh Tanveer
I see. This is apparently the way the AL will claim that 70 percent of people voted.
Concerned citizen
Are we so helpless as a nation? Despite knowing all these, all we do is sit and watch the nation being destroyed. Thank you, DS, for publishing this, but please do not stop here, make sure this man is held to account.
Poy
Now think of Hasina saying this to the aspirant MPs.
Aasfisarwar
If someone loses two ears, he walks through the middle of the street.
Sumi
Beautiful!
Amzad Hossain
Even this shameful incident could be disowned by Awami League as before, on the ground that it is just an isolated incident. The election as a whole must be a fair and impartial one.