Elections boycotted in Bangladesh.

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A fresh program of strikes is announced in Bangladesh by the end of the month, as national elections scheduled for later this month are going to be boycotted. A key political alliance in Bangladesh decided this. The country’s caretaker administration is charged of not being neutral and honest. At a news conference in Dhaka in Bangladesh the former prime Minster and leader of the 17 parties’ alliance sheikh Hasina showed lists of voters which she considered incorrect.

 

Political tempers in Bangladesh were calmed last week when the Awami league and its 14 allies decided to take part in national elections. But suddenly the leader of Awami league sheikh Hasina announced her boycott to the January 22^{nd, 2006} national elections. She accuses the caretaker administration of bias toward her main rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. She demanded that the current president Iajuddin Ahmed step down as head of the interim government, she even went to consider him as a menace for free and fair elections.

 The Awami League says the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has appointed loyalists to key positions in the caretaker government and the election commission in order to rig the polls.  It also says the voters list is stacked with millions of fake names to ensure a Bangladesh Nationalist Party victory.

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