A trifling 0.01 percent, 0.73 percent and 0.22 percent these are the share of votes Jatiya Party (Manju), an Awami League ally, was able to bag out of the total vote cast in the constituencies it vied for in the last three national elections.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said the BNP’s presence would make the next general election more participatory, but the EC cannot force anyone to join the polls.
The question in the title of this column was triggered by a press comment following our president’s dialogue with National Awami Party (NAP) leaders, published on December 27, 2021.
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