Election Violence

Election Violence
Election Commission

RPO amendment EC didn't consider proposals put forth during dialogues

Election commissioner Rasheda Sultana said the EC has made proposals of what is necessary. Some of the proposals put forwarded (by the political parties) during the dialogues have also been included

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal talks to media as other commissioners listens

Did CEC just ‘acknowledge’ the indispensability of caretaker government?

Any person who is a beneficiary of any government is not qualified to be appointed as an election commissioner

Murder

Kushtia AL leader shot dead, three others bullet-hit

The incident could be the result of election-related clashes, said local people

Editorial

UP Election EC must be held accountable for poll violence

UP polls in almost all the districts and upazilas of the country were mired in violence, take over of polling centres and vandalism

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Gunfire opened aiming vehicle of Satkania UP chairman

Miscreants have fired at the vehicle of Ramzan Ali, chairman of Kanchana union parishad in Satkania upazila of Chattogram

Two including teenager killed in Chattogram UP polls violence

Two including teenager killed in Chattogram UP polls violence

Two people including a teenage boy were killed and several others injured in clashes between supporters of chairman candidates during union parishad elections in Satkania upazila of Chattogram, ...

KM Nurul Huda departing in failure

Five years of the election commission KM Nurul Huda departing in failure

Questions have arisen over all local government elections, save a few, held over the past five years as well as the EC’s role in this. Questions have arisen over the elections even from within the EC ...

Chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda addresses a function titled ‘RFED Talk with KM Nurul Huda’ arranged by Reporters Forum for Election and Democracy (RFED) at Nirbachan Bhaban (Election Building) in Dhaka, on 27 January 2022

Holding elections under party government is the only solution: CEC

Nurul Huda said the “allegation of holding voting at night” in the 11th parliamentary elections was not true at all

12 injured in attack by AL in Cumilla

UP polls violence 12 injured in attack by AL in Cumilla

At least 12 persons were injured in an attack reportedly by supporters of ruling Awami League candidate for the upcoming union parishad election at Khoskandi area of Damoti union on Friday

Election commissioner Mahbub Talukder

The NCC polls are the best after Cumilla: Mahbub Talukder

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has claimed that Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls are the best after Cumilla in the last five years

Selina Hayat Ivy and Taimur Alam Khandakar

When Awami League's inner conflict is the election issue

No matter how the Narayanganj election may be, no matter what the results may be, the ruling party cannot avoid responsibility for the violence.

Editorial

UP election violence Why are the accused killers not arrested?

Where the law enforcers implicate opposition leaders and activists in false cases every now and then, it is hard to believe they could not arrest those accused of murdering five elected and defeated ...

Editorial

EC must take responsibility for UP election violence

The election commission, as well as leaders and activists of the ruling party, must take responsibility for the violence and killings that took place throughout the UP elections

Ballot box

UP elections Two killed in Chandpur violence

Two people have been killed in violence during the union parishad (UP) elections in Chandpur

Election commissioner Mahbub Talukder

EC faces question for holding election at night instead of day: Mahbub Talukder

Referring to the incidents of ballot snatching at various union parishad elections, election commissioner Mahbub Talukder on Wednesday said it is necessary to stop this situation by providing ...

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