Brilliant feat of election engineering

Bangladesh Awami League (AL) completely outplayed Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
They (AL) took lesson from 2001 and did everything in a highly calculative manner not to suffer the same fate as they did in 2001. They realised that in 2001 they were over-confident of winning, for good reason though, yet they lost in the election.
This time around AL did not want to make the same mistake. To this end, the first thing they have done is demolish the caretaker government system, since they understood the psyche of the Bangladeshi people. One of our inherent characteristics is that we, the people of Bangladesh, are anti-incumbent. AL realised no matter how well they performed in running the government, they would still lose in the election. They put all their efforts to engineer the system. They have chosen a partisan election commission, changed many important rules regarding election and put obedient and trusted people in the key position. In my opinion, if scams like Hallmark, Destiny, Padma bridge, share market, etc., had not taken place during AL's regime (2008-2013), people would have put them back to power for the second consecutive term, since BNP did not play any positive roles whatsoever during the same time.
Dr. Kamrul Hassan
Professor
Department of Physics
Dhaka University