From: S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Subject: ome Important Findings from Upazilla election
To: "S A Hannan" <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 4:43 PM
Some Important Findings from Upazilla election
In the just concluded Upazilla ( sub-district , an area of about five hundred thousand people )election , we have noticed some special aspects of national and party behavior.One is widespread irregularities, using official positions by the ministers and MPs.This has been recognized even by The Chief Election Commissioner. The rigging has been so much that no rectification is possible without re-polling in at least half of the Upazillas.
In this election Awami league has got more than three hundred seats of Upazilla chairmen seats , BNP about 80 seats , Jtiya Party about 20 seats and Jamaate Islami 22 seats of Upazilla Chairmen. Without serious rigging, the result could be very different
Most significant is Iamaate islami won 37 Vice-Chairman seats, of them thirteen are women .Jamaat has contested only 49 seats of Chairmen and won twentytwo.This is a very good result and it shows that the analysts who said that Jamaate Islami has been uprooted from the electoral field were totally wrong.Even in National Assembly they got more votes than before in total numbers and also per seat vote average , but this did not reflect in number of seats then and some biased people were making biased propaganda.that Jamaat has been uprooted. This UpaZilla election result has blackened these false prophets ..
More significantly they fielded women candidates and won thirteen women Vice-Chairmen .It is a very good development .Jamaat in this respect has followed Ikhwan, Iranian, Palestinian and Malaysian Islamic parties' model.They deserve congratulation.In our judgement they have followed Islamic ijunctions in true spirit, women can not be neglected in socio-political field.We would ask Jamaat to field non-Muslim and women candidates in all future elections.