Perhaps this is not an apt analogy, but did the AL election machinery fall asleep because they thought this was an easy win for ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury?
In a stunner, BNP supported and former Awami-leaguer Monzur Alam has won the election. (Bangladesh Election Commission has the result available online)
First, let us congratulate the Election Commission for this relatively peaceful and obviously neutral (or neutral enough) election. Despite a few allegations from BNP's side, the BNP-win gives the EC tremendous credibility.
Then let the post-mortem begin.
- Did AL think Mohiuddin's win was assured and did not work hard?
- Did Mohiuddin lose because BNP worked harder?
- Did Monzur get some AL votes because of his previous AL membership?
- Did another AL candidate (Solaiman Alam Sheth) get some of Mohiuddin's votes (possible but not likely to make a difference; see the result above)
I believe the reason was the political sophistication of our voters. I have great faith in them. They have always punished the incumbent for their past abuses, and I suspect Mr. Mohiuddin just got a firm kick on his buttocks for his own and his party's misdeeds.
AL highcommand should take this as the writing on the wall: do not take the voters for granted: govern well and curb the crimes. Or in Bangla as we used to say as kids: এখনো সময় আছে, ভাল হইয়া যা!
2 comments:
Hi just read your post and wanted to give my opinion on this. I think the voting was handled quite nicely and it was fare. Now after the winning of Monzur, there are some points i'd like to write which are:
Mohuddin got a firm kick on his backside (lol!), but he also secured a large number of votes. That means there are also a significant number of people who voted for him and who oppose manzur's policy. So Mr. Monzur has to keep an eye on this fact or else he's gonna have the same fate.
This is a obviously a major blow to the ruling party. Now i'm concerned about the clashes. Our economy and industry deeply dependent on the workable condition of this port city, that's why this election is so much important (duh!) and the opposition now has the most valuable card on their hand. If they wanna play this card to destabilize the ruling party thus govt. then i'm afraid we will see things like hortal, oborodh, chittagong bondor ochol etc in the near future, which will be a disaster for our economy. I hope BNP understands this and i also hope AL don't act like they gotta take revenge.
Fuad:
Astute analysis, specially about the future impact on the economy.
Thank you.
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