It's a small, yet hugely populated third world nation. I wonder how many cares and follows. But it's my country and I am deeply intrigued by the most interesting election (to me) in Bangladesh.

There are basically two major parties, AL (Awami league) and BNP (Bangladesh National Party) and some others. For last decade, there has been a (nasty) fight between these two parties and I have believed, there were supporters for both these parties, leading to a competition between two parties always. For the last three elections, these parties formed Government alternatively, proving there are balanced supporters for both.

The alternation rule between these two Major parties to form Government has continued, BNP has been replaced by AL, but the interesting part is, AL won a landslide victory, an unbelievable triumph against all other parties !!! That's why this is interesting !!


I don't read political news everyday, so surely I am not an expert in this field. I have been asking few friends about their reaction. Looks like the new generation is quite excited about it. This was summary.

- Almost all my friends went to vote and they reported it was unexpectedly safe and sound environment.

- Everyone (sorry, there must be few supporters) is happy that Jamaat Islam was defeated with shame. This is the 'so called' religion based party and supports some war criminals (of course, they argue they are not).

- The young generation went to vote in festive mode. Their number was huge and undoubtedly had a tremendous effect on the result.

- An unbelievable number of big fishes were defeated, fishes that expected and had been enjoying sure wins in some regions.

- Everyone wanted change (hmm.. obama dialouge)