Khadimul Islam
None of thirty-three political parties could not get even one per cent of the total votes cast, which is one of the pre-conditions for being eligible for getting registered by the Election Commission.
Five political parties secured 96.16 per cent of the votes, 148 independent candidates bagged 2.95 per cent of the votes and the remaining 33 political parties got 3.84 per cent of the votes cast in Monday’s general elections.
According to the Election Commission’s statistics, the Bangladesh Awami League obtained 48.06 per cent of the total number of votes that were cast, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party got 32.45 per cent, the Jatiya party 7.05 per cent, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 4.60 per cent and Islami Andolon only 1.05 per cent.
Eight political parties were successful in sending their representatives to the Parliament while no candidate of 30 political parties won the polls.
Thirty-nine political parties got registered with the Election Commission after meeting one of the conditions — of having at least one member elected as lawmaker since the independence of the country or getting at least one per cent of the total votes cast in the immediate past general election. Any new political party has to have functional organisational units and offices in at least ten administrative districts and offices in at least fifty upazilas or metropolitan thanas. Of the registered political parties, 38 fielded candidates, and fifteen of them fielded between one and eight candidates, in the polls.
Among the small political parties, only the Islami Andolon Bangladesh nominated candidates in 166 seats, but almost all its candidates failed to save their security deposits. (Any candidate failing to obtain more than one-eighth of the total votes cast, loses his deposit of Tk 10,000.)
Apart from candidates of the minor political parties, most of the 148 independent candidates and some nominees of the BNP, AL, Jatiya Party and Jamaat-e-Islami lost their security deposits.
As many as 900 candidates, out of 1,555, have reportedly lost their deposits for poor performance despite a record turn-out in the ninth parliamentary elections.
Nine Jatiya Party candidates, including Rawshan Ershad in Mymensingh-4, also lost their security deposits.
The former president of the country and Bikalpadhara chief AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, a candidate in Dhaka-6, and Abdul Mannan, who stood in Dhaka-11, also lost their security deposits.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
