Low voter turnout must now not be interpreted as nation dissatisfaction with Top Minister Sheikh Hasina, Veena Sikri has instructed RT
Neither the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration’s boycott of Sunday’s elections nor the exclusion of the rustic’s primary Islamist get together Jamaat-e-Islami must have an effect on the legitimacy of incumbent Top Minister Sheikh Hasina’s most likely victory, former Indian Top Commissioner in Bangladesh, Veena Sikri, instructed RT on Sunday.
“Low voter turnout doesn’t necessarily reflect dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party. It will also reflect a great deal of concern with the BNP and other parties who have been known to cause violence and loss of life and loss of property and destruction of infrastructure, and so it’s not that they are very popular either with the people,” Siki stated.
Turnout used to be reported at simply 40% next polls closed on Sunday, in comparison to over 80% when the closing election used to be held in 2018, next the BNP known as a two-day national crash and advised electorate to stick house to keep away from legitimizing the incumbent with their participation. The BNP’s chief, Khaleda Zia, is underneath area arrest on corruption fees that her supporters say are politically determined.
With out a major-party challengers taking part within the vote, the victory of Hasina and her Awami League are all however confident, at the same time as critics accuse the flesh presser of vote-rigging next she refused to permit a impartial caretaker executive to manage the election. Hasina, who has blamed the opposition for a pre-election surge in violence, insisted she didn’t wish to turn out her legitimacy to someone however “the people of Bangladesh.”
