The so-called “parliamentary election” and referendum held on Thursday under Muhammad Yunus’ illegal regime were nothing but a grotesque, premeditated shamโa desperate charade to launder his unelected power through fabricated numbers and outright theft.
From the moment polling stations “opened” at 7:30am, the farce was evident. The Election Commission (EC), Yunus’s obedient mouthpiece, promised updates every two hours. What a joke.
It took over three agonising hours for their first pathetic claim: a laughable 14.96% turnout compiled from just 32,000 out of 42,651 centres by 11am.
Barely an hour later, at noon, they magically jumped to 32.88% from a slightly higher number of centresโimplying an absurd 17.92% surge, or over 25 million votes stuffed in one single hour.
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This isn’t turnout; it’s industrial-scale forgery, cooked up in backrooms to fool the world.
Ground reality exposed the lies brutally. In Sylhet division, the EC brazenly declared 47% turnout by noon, yet veteran local photojournalistsโcovering the same centres since 1991โdescribed them as eerily deserted, the emptiest they’ve ever seen.
A Kaler Kantho reporter captured another polling station in Sylhet standing ghost-like at 2pm, with zero voters in sight. Across the nation, viral videos and photos from Dhaka, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Sirajganj, Rangpur, and beyond showed the same damning truth: polling centres were hollow, security forces like Ansar and BGB idly played cricket or twiddled their thumbs, and mosques were desperately blaring pleas for voters that went unanswered.
In one Dhaka centre, a viral claim reported only five votes by midday. EU observers wandered through vacant booths and left disillusioned. This was no electionโit was a boycott triumph by the people, heeding the Awami League’s call to reject Yunus’s staged circus.
Yet the EC shamelessly ploughed ahead with their scripted narrative. Their last public update at 2pm claimed 47.91% from 36,031 stationsโthen silence for hours, no final figures released as voting closed at 4:30pm.
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Why the blackout? Because the numbers were pure fiction, inflated to mask the mass abstention and cover pre-dawn ballot stuffing, impersonation, and overnight box-filling caught on CCTV in places like Mymensingh, Narayanganj, Jhenaidah, Noakhali, and Sylhet.
Symbols of BNP’s paddy sheaves and Jamaat’s scales were allegedly pre-stamped in bulk. Voters arrived to find their ballots already castโelderly like 75-year-old Abdul Malek in Rajshahi or 92-year-old Chhaya told their votes were “done.”
Womenโs booths infiltrated, minorities barred outright (as in Banshkhali, where a Hindu woman tearfully asked, “Are we not human?”), and CCTVs mysteriously broken in Patuakhali to enable fraud. Clashes between BNP and Jamaat supporters only added to the chaos of mutual accusations.
Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rightly branded it a “carefully planned farce,” a “voter-less, illegal” exercise rigged to prop up Yunus’s illegitimate grip after the Awami League was barred and its supporters intimidated.
The people’s boycott was resoundingโpolling stations stood empty because Bangladeshis refused to legitimise this theft. Yunus’s regime, desperate for international applause, peddled inflated figures to deceive the world, but the evidence of manipulation is overwhelming: ghost voters, pre-stuffed boxes, erased names, and turnout spikes that defy physics.
This wasn’t democracyโit was democracy’s corpse, exhumed and puppeted by a Nobel laureate turned dictator-in-waiting. The people of Bangladesh deserve justice, not this transparent scam. Yunus’s “reforms” were born in fraud; they will die in exposure. The real mandate? Rejection of his rule, loud and clear from the empty booths nationwide.
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