By-Poll In Frame
The
Daily Star, Dhaka Friday July 2, 2004
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from top left, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) candidate Abdul Mannan argues
with the presiding officer over the absence of army at the Hossain Ali
Primary School Polling Centre in Nakhalpara; voters at Segun Bagicha High
School centre protest against casting of false votes well before they
had even come to the centre; the BDB polling agents demonstrate on Bangabandhu
Avenue after ruling coalition adherents drove them out of the polling
centres, and BDB lawmaker Mahi B Chowdhury briefs foreign election observers
on the ouster.
Bottom left, (1) ruling BNP lawmaker Salauddin Ahmed of Demra, who is neither a polling agent nor a voter of Tejgaon-Ramna constituency, shakes hands with a policeman at Maghbazar Shahnoori Boys’ High School centre; his loitering around the centre raised many eyebrows; (2) two polling agents doze off at Ispahani School centre in Maghbazar; (3) voters, mostly youths, line up at the Central Public Library centre; (4) policemen and Ansar personnel, instead of army, stand guard at Tejgaon Government Science College centre; (5) two voters put the seal on ballot papers in the open rather than inside polling booths at a centre at Curzon Hall of Dhaka University; (6&7) the Ispahani School centre in Maghbazar and Community Centre Ideal High School in Tejgaon saw an unusually high number of young voters; (8) these adolescents were caught casting fake votes at Segun Bagicha High School centre; (9) a flabbergasted Mannan at the press conference in the National Press Club and (10) a woman polling agent of the BDB breaks down in tears while complaining to journalists about harassment by alliance activists at Community Centre Ideal High School. Star Photo |
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The Daily Star, 2004