Ruling Awami League cadres are stuffing ballot boxes at one polling booth of RK Chowdhury College in Jatrabari in the capital.
Dhaka Tribune Special Correspondent Asif Showkat Kallol reported that the polling was going on normally in four booths, while the other one was taken over by the ruling party men.
Kollol said: “The local Awami League ward chief offered me money when I wanted to go see what was happening.”
He said the ward leader barred him from visiting the booth.
Elections in three city corporations are underway amid vandalism and occupation of polling centres allegedly by the ruling party cadres.
Terming the ongoing city polls farcical, BNP has rejected the polls in the Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong City Corporations.
Voting at three polling stations under Suritola Model Primary School has been suspended following vandalism at the centre around 9:30am.
Journalists have allegedly been barred by police personnel from entering several polling stations in the capital.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
You are just watching a NEW type of Democracy in Bangladesh, where the voters are spared the trouble of visiting the booth & insist you stay home; all bcz the candidates can read (!!) your mind.