Obaidul Quader statement: This shouldn’t have been a mere political statement; it should have been the reality. But the current government policies are not in line with that goal.
After Bangladesh’s journey began on the path to becoming a modern democracy in 1991, many expected that electoral democracy would gain a strong footing gradually. But that hope and aspiration stumbled for the first slip at the infamous Magura-2 parliamentary by-polls on March 20, 1994.