{"id":392,"date":"2023-12-20T21:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2024-01-09T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:55:27","slug":"bangladeshs-one-sided-parliamentary-elections-and-the-crackdown-on-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s one-sided parliamentary elections and the crackdown on political opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held on 7 January. In the run up to the elections, there have been escalating protests led by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party calling for Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to resign and transfer power to a non-partisan caretaker government to ensure a free and fair election. Historically, Bangladesh\u2019s elections have been marred by violence and crackdowns on political opposition. This election has already seen a number of BNP party members and supporters being arrested by the Awami League government, and there are now calls from political opposition to boycott the election altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this edition of&nbsp;<em>Himal Interviews,&nbsp;<\/em>Assistant Editor Nayantara Narayanan interviews&nbsp;<em>Himal Southasian&nbsp;<\/em>contributor Anupam Debashis Roy on Bangladesh\u2019s elections, the crackdown on political opposition and the impact of US-imposed visa restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the atmosphere in Bangladesh like in the run-up to parliamentary elections?\u2002Please listen this pod cast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-162273488\/himal-interviews-bangladeshs-one-sided-parliamentary-elections-crackdown-on-political-opposition?utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_campaign=wtshare&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-162273488%252Fhimal-interviews-bangladeshs-one-sided-parliamentary-elections-crackdown-on-political-opposition\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-162273488\/himal-interviews-bangladeshs-one-sided-parliamentary-elections-crackdown-on-political-opposition?utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_campaign=wtshare&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-162273488%252Fhimal-interviews-bangladeshs-one-sided-parliamentary-elections-crackdown-on-political-opposition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please support us by visit and share your comments on :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/\">https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/daily-nobojug.com\/\">https:\/\/daily-nobojug.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh\u2019s parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held on 7 January. In the run up to the elections, there have been escalating protests led by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party calling for Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to resign and transfer power to a non-partisan caretaker government to ensure a free and fair election. Historically, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/?p=392\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bangladesh\u2019s one-sided parliamentary elections and the crackdown on political opposition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,20,24,29,30,34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdrealissues.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}