| Mr. anisul haque, In your cry in the bush , you have said that vote of youth has given such a un predicted victory to AL. But sorry to notice that you have given example of two rickshaw pullers. Actually these poor rickshaw pullers have voted due to the destructiion of Economy by the CTG and taking price of esentials beyond their purchase power. Many youth whom i thought would vote for AL as a reader of pro-Al prothom-alo, didn't do so. So it is a missreading that AL has got maximum of new voters. How come our youth be so much supporter of Degree buyer Sheikh hasina? If people had taken into acount the evil acts of our politicians , then biswa behaya ershad and queen of corruption hasina could not win. Nanok and Miraza Azam(listed among the first 50 corrupt) who killed nine people by setting fire in a bus as revealed by Falzul karim selim during his grilling by DGFI would not win with such a big marzin. habibur rahman molla who was in jail for false wealth statement could not win the election. In my assessment , the single major decisive factor was price of essentials . During the last rule AL, price was low mainly due to international market and then success of Motia. During BNP rule , prices went up due to 2-3 fold increase of fule in the international market due to iraq war. However, due to good bussiness and other positive indicator of economy, prices did not go beyond people's purchase power. For this reason,even prothom-alo and dailty star could not publish one single report in five years that sales of essentials had deceased or consumption had decreased during bnp rule. But due to the destructive activites of care taker govet, the income of poor people has decreased very much and 10% people have gone below the poverty line .In contrary, during BNP rule every year 2 % people came out of poverty line. Due to failure of CTG and international market , prices of essential has increased too much. So it went beyond people purchase power and there were frequent report in the newpspapers(alo-star) that sales in the market and consumption had decreased. So price of essentials was the single major decisive factor in voting to these poor people . it is also revealed in your example of Rickshaw pullers. Due to low prices during last tenure of AL and present promises (which now they are denying ) of rice at tk 10, free fertilizer , people trusted more AL than BNP for price of essentials.80-90% of poor voters(even though many were BNP supporters) have voted in favor of AL in addition to the reserve vote of AL. In addition to this , favor of CTG for AL and false propaganda in the last 1-2 days by the administration and AL( such as false ballot paper by Mahmudur rahman, arresting BNP activists bringing false charge of buying votes , (Who will beleive that only BNP tried to buy vote, AL didn't ) ), AL got some more votes in addition to their reserve votes. Hence such a unpredictable and unimaginated (even by AL ) election result. Now it seems that terrorism again will be major factor for AL, it will be hard for AL to control its activist from terrorism. AL is lucky that international market remains in its favor during its tenure (1996-2001) and now. Wish AL be really changed and bangladesh make progress. |