{"id":6329,"date":"2026-02-14T03:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:17","slug":"midnight-election-2-5-crore-votes-stuffed-in-1-hour-while-polling-stations-stood-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6329","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Election: 2.5 crore votes stuffed in 1 hour while polling stations stood empty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called &#8220;parliamentary election&#8221; and referendum held on Thursday under Muhammad Yunus&#8217; illegal regime were nothing but a grotesque, premeditated sham\u2014a desperate charade to launder his unelected power through fabricated numbers and outright theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the moment polling stations &#8220;opened&#8221; at 7:30am, the farce was evident. The Election Commission (EC), Yunus&#8217;s obedient mouthpiece, promised updates every two hours. What a joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took over three agonising hours for their first pathetic claim: a laughable 14.96% <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/albd1971\/status\/2022074213918814380\">turnout <\/a>compiled from just 32,000 out of 42,651 centres by 11am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barely an hour later, at noon, they magically jumped to 32.88% from a slightly higher number of centres\u2014implying an absurd 17.92% surge, or over 25 million votes stuffed in one single hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6326\">Midnight Election: 244% voter turnout in Rajshahi-4 constituency<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6323\">Sheikh Hasina: Voting started in a festive mode the night before elections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6318\">Jamaat\u2019s 77 seats signal continuation of militancy, mob violence under BNP rule<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t turnout; it&#8217;s industrial-scale forgery, cooked up in backrooms to fool the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ground reality exposed the lies brutally. In Sylhet division, the EC brazenly declared 47% turnout by noon, yet veteran local photojournalists\u2014covering the same centres since 1991\u2014described them as eerily deserted, the emptiest they&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 election\u2014it was a boycott triumph by the people, heeding the Awami League&#8217;s call to reject Yunus&#8217;s staged circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the EC shamelessly ploughed ahead with their scripted narrative. Their last public update at 2pm claimed 47.91% from 36,031 stations\u2014then silence for hours, no final figures released as voting closed at 4:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6304\">After midnight ballot stumping, many could not cast their votes Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6309\">Dismal voter turnout exposes Yunus\u2019 farce amid Awami League\u2019s boycott<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6273\">Midnight Election: Vote stuffing, cash seizures dominate final hours<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Symbols of BNP&#8217;s paddy sheaves and Jamaat&#8217;s scales were allegedly pre-stamped in bulk. Voters arrived to find their ballots already cast\u2014elderly like 75-year-old Abdul Malek in Rajshahi or 92-year-old Chhaya told their votes were &#8220;done.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s booths infiltrated, minorities barred outright (as in Banshkhali, where a Hindu woman tearfully asked, &#8220;Are we not human?&#8221;), and CCTVs mysteriously broken in Patuakhali to enable fraud. Clashes between BNP and Jamaat supporters only added to the chaos of mutual accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rightly branded it a &#8220;carefully planned farce,&#8221; a &#8220;voter-less, illegal&#8221; exercise rigged to prop up Yunus&#8217;s illegitimate grip after the Awami League was barred and its supporters intimidated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people&#8217;s boycott was resounding\u2014polling stations stood empty because Bangladeshis refused to legitimise this theft. Yunus&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This wasn&#8217;t democracy\u2014it was democracy&#8217;s corpse, exhumed and puppeted by a Nobel laureate turned dictator-in-waiting. The people of Bangladesh deserve justice, not this transparent scam. Yunus&#8217;s &#8220;reforms&#8221; were born in fraud; they will die in exposure. The real mandate? Rejection of his rule, loud and clear from the empty booths nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called &#8220;parliamentary election&#8221; and referendum held on Thursday under Muhammad Yunus&#8217; illegal regime were nothing but a grotesque, premeditated sham\u2014a desperate charade to launder his unelected power through fabricated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,646,1207,84,42],"tags":[46,51,913,50,54,65,56,85,1318,63,1591,64],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-emergency","category-fact-check","category-politics","tag-bnp","tag-election","tag-election-commission-ec","tag-interim-government","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-national-citizen-party-ncp","tag-referendum","tag-sheikh-hasina","tag-turnout","tag-yunus-gang"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}