The cloud overshadowing the post-election Jatiya Party leadership is only deepening. Party chairman HM Ershad is enjoying a friendly detention at Combined Military Hospital (CMH). People don’t clearly know whether his position is pro-government or an anti-government one. If his stance is anti-government he would have been in the jail, if he was pro-government he would have been openly contesting the polls and may be not facing the shameful defeat at Lalmonirhat-1 constituency where he had bagged only 7820 votes...

The stage managed election of the government is over and the Election Commission (EC) has claimed that 39 percent people have voted in the polls leaving the people to wonder how come it happened when most of the polling centers across the country produced a deserted look throughout the election-day. Meanwhile a functionary of Fair Election Monitoring Alliance (FEMA) in a TV remark said he believed the turnout were around 10 percent. A director of the National Human Rights Commission...

The main opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Monday that the illegal government would not last long. The people of the country like the previous history staged a silent revolution against continuation of the autocracy, she said. Asking the government to come to a consensus, she called to cancel the farcical election and hold a free and fair election under a non-party caretaker government with the participation of all parties. Begum Zia said this in a statement to the...