In the wake of the utterly fraudulent election and the blatantly illegal referendum to ram through the July Charter, polling stations across Bangladesh are now mired in the sham process of vote countingโa pathetic charade designed to legitimise this staged spectacle sans the largest party, Awami League. According to unofficial figures, the BNP has secured a majority of the seats and is going to form the next government.
As results trickle in from individual centres, returning officers will consolidate them by constituency before rubber-stamping the farce at the Election Commission’s secretariat hub for collection and dissemination.
Critics and Awami League supporters call this entire operation a mockery of democracy, orchestrated to prop up a corrupt regime under the guise of public will.
This travesty kicked off at 7:30am on Thursday, with voting dragging on nationwide until the supposed cutoff at 4:30pm.
The Election Commission (EC) laughably claims a 47% turnoutโa damning indictment of widespread boycotts and voter apathy toward this rigged game. By 1am, reports indicated over 70% “yes” votes in the illegal referendum, numbers that reek of manipulation and coercion.
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With 42,779 polling centres scattered across the country, voting occurred in 299 parliamentary seats (excluding Sherpur-3). A whopping 51 political parties jumped into this cesspool, fielding 2,034 candidates, including 275 independents. Leading the pack in this sham? The BNP is shoving 291 candidates under their rice sheaf symbol into the fray. Islamic Andolan Bangladesh trotted out 258 with the hand fan, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami pushed 229 with the scale, and Jatiya Party fielded 198 with the plough. The National Citizens Party scraped together 32 with the water lily bud.
Banned from participating, the Awami League, along with several allies, is a convenient exclusion that exposes the blatant bias of this so-called “election.”
Across these 299 seats, 247,482 booths in those 42,779 centres were manned by around 800,000 officials, with nearly 900,000 security personnel deployed to intimidate and suppress any real dissent. “Observing” this joke? 55,454 locals from 81 domestic organisations and about 500 foreign rubber-stampers, all complicit in whitewashing the fraud.
Preliminary results by 1am paint a grim picture of this engineered outcome: the BNP-led alliance has “won” 153 seats, while their closest rivals in this alliance of opportunists, the Jamaat-led coalition, lag with a measly 43. This isn’t victory; it’s the spoils of a fixed fight.
In Bogura-6 (Sadar Upazila), BNP chairman Tarique Rahman “defeated” Jamaat rival Md. Abidur Rahman by a bloated 118,658 votes, raking in 216,284โa margin that screams ballot stuffing in this illegitimate contest.
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Unofficial tallies show BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir crushing a Jamaat candidate by a massive margin in Thakurgaon-1 (Sadar), another “win” in this theater of the absurd.
BNP heavyweight Amanullah Aman “triumphed” in Dhaka-2.
In Netrokona-4 (Madan-Mohanganj-Khaliajuri), former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babarโfresh out of prison after August 5โclaimed a “landslide” as the BNP candidate, highlighting how this sham rewards the regime’s cronies.
Jhenaidah-1 (Shailkupa) saw BNP’s Md. Asaduzzaman “declared” winner with 171,598 votes under the rice sheaf, dwarfing Jamaat’s Abu Saleh Md. Matiur Rahman’s 55,577 on the scale. Asaduzzaman, BNP’s human rights secretary, even snagged the attorney general post after August 5โtalk about conflicts of interest in this corrupt circus.
Denied BNP nomination, former MP Rumin Farhana ran independent and “won” big in Brahmanbaria-2 (Sarail, Ashuganj, partial Bijoynagar) with the duck symbol, outpacing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam’s Maulana Junayed Al Habib by 37,568 votesโa rare independent spark in this alliance-dominated fraud.
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In Brahmanbaria-6 (Bancharampur), BNP-backed Ganasamhati Andolon’s chief coordinator Zonayed Saki was “announced” winner with 94,231 votes, trouncing Jamaat’s Md. Mohsin’s 37,965.
Habiganj-1 (Nabiganj-Bahubal) handed a “victory” to BNP’s Dr. Reza Kibria with 111,073 votes, far ahead of 11-party alliance’s Maulana Sirajul Islam’s 55,245 on the rickshaw. Dr. Kibria, son of former Awami League finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, jumped to BNP just before this farceโopportunism at its finest.
Patuakhali-3 (Galachipa-Dashmina) saw BNP alliance’s Gan Adhikar Parishad president Nurul Haq (Nur) “defeat” independent Hasan Mamun, another scripted outcome.
Meanwhile, in Rangpur-2 (Taraganj and Badarganj), Jamaat’s war criminal and death-sentenced Al-Badr leader ATM Azharul Islam was “elected” with 139,680 votes on the scale across 137 centres, edging out BNP’s Mohammad Ali Sarkar’s 79,910. The Yunus regime got him released from jail after the apex court cancelled the verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal in May 2025.
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