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It cannot be ignored that the nation came to this day because a path to hold a fair election is absent, and that the current system of governance has undermined the citizens’ right to exercise their inalienable right to vote.

Like the general public, we too feel apprehensive about what October 28 might entail, given the increasingly incendiary remarks coming from both parties in the lead-up to the day, and their uncompromising stance regarding an election-time government.

AL-BNP stalemate: Obviously, our political parties are more focused on their own issues than on issues of people’s interest: peace and stability. But they must realise that the country has not faced such a multifaceted crisis in the recent past – certainly not before any election since 1991, which was when we began our journey towards being a modern democracy.

One cannot help but note that Quader had a brazen attitude and lacked any embarrassment about the vitriol his party had been spewing against the US for quite some time now.