A voterless election?

We have a world record in hand. The Guinness Book of records can now  have a new entry — the parliament with the highest number of uncontested members in the world. The number has already reached the magic figure of 151 out of a total House membership of 300, which could likely entitle Sheikh Hasina to form her new government. The number of contestants for the remaining seats are the lowest ever in the history of Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections.
As it now stands, out of nearly 92 million voters about 43 million were deprived of their right to vote. In the rest of the constituencies AL will ‘win’, except where it hands over the seats to their chosen few.
One wonders, where does all this leave the Prime Minister’s repeated commitment to upholding the people’s right to vote?
The much-maligned February 1996 election had only 49 uncontested MPs. Even under autocratic Ershad the number of uncontested winners was 18.
Election has been given a new definition and people’s will manipulated away from them. So far it has been a voterless election, as in the cases where votes may be cast the winner will already be known. Where has an elected democracy come to? People of Bangladesh deserve better.