General elections are to be held in Bangladesh tomorrow Thursday and for this all the major parties campaigned vigorously. Now the eyes of the whole world are fixed on the elections to be held here. At present, all necessary preparations for the elections have been made before voting. More than half of the polling centers for elections in the country have been considered “risky”. Officials say 90% of them will be under CCTV surveillance, while many policemen deployed in the capital Dhaka are wearing body cameras.
Officials say that the security arrangements of the Election Commission are based on risk assessment. Election Commissioner Abul Fazal Mohammad Sanaullah told a media briefing late Tuesday night, “Security arrangements are being made on the basis of security sensitivities at the local level.” Election officials believe that this election will be the biggest ever in the electoral history of the country and a large number of security personnel will be deployed in it and technology will also be used to the maximum.
Sanaullah said that the Election Commission hopes that the security agencies will try to maintain a peaceful environment for the voters during and after the elections. Regarding preparations before voting, he said that the Election Commission is largely satisfied with the current law and order situation and “compared to any time before, we are in a better position now”.
His statement regarding law and order came hours after Police Inspector General Baharul Alam said that out of about 43,000 polling centers across the country, 24,000 were found to be at high or medium risk.
Police said that our teen gave a list of risky polling centers to the Election Commission, which revealed that out of 2,131 polling centers in the capital Dhaka, 1,614 were at risk. However, earlier it was told by the Army that they have described 2 centers in Dhaka City as risky.
Not only this, the officials also said that the policemen will also use body-worn cameras for the first time at many special centres. The Commission also revealed that out of the total 1,27,700,597 first-time voters, about 3.58 percent were youth.
Everyone's eyes are on this election in Bangladesh. The contest here is mainly believed to be between Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its one-time ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
Last year, the interim government of the country's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus had dissolved the Awami League of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and barred it from contesting elections. In pre-election surveys, BNP was said to be in the lead and its new chairman Tariq Rehman is the frontrunner to become the next Prime Minister.
About one and a half years ago, Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government had to resign amid the student-led rebellion that began on August 5 in 2024 and then violent street protests.
