Election fever
Photos: Shafiqul Islam Kajol / Driknews (left) And R Hasan / Driknews (right)
I remember the early eighties when I accompanied my mother to a polling station. I remember the blue smudge on my mother's nail--the proof that she had cast her vote, those posters, the crowd of people around the polling station. The whole episode left the impression on the child's brain--that the election is a time of festivity, something akin to a fair . Then as I grew up I saw people, in the mid- eighties, clamouring for democracy. An election was held in the mid-eighties--the so-called yes-no vote. I remember those processions, hot slogans, the grim-faced news-casters on the eight o'clock news on BTV. At last democracy came to this land through the mass upsurge of 1990 and election of 1991. This time round another election is going to be held under the auspices of the military -backed caretaker government. We are waiting with baited breath to see the outcome of the election. Let peace prevail in this part of the world.
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