Risible attacks
It is not at all relishing to see the BNP still continuing its ballyhoos of an allegation against the EC and obliquely against those who were at the helm of affairs that they, through conspiracy and wide-spread vote rigging, got it routed in the general election of December 29. Such allegations, in fact, appeared queer and deprecating or dismissive as the people cast their vote in the most transparent ballot boxes under fool proof security, after correct scrutiny of their names and identifications and also in an utter fear-free mood, never felt in any earlier elections, and as hundreds of local and foreign bodies of observers who observed and monitored the election proceedings found no notable anomalies and commented to their satisfaction that the election was international standard. That sets aside the allegations as phoney and expressive of shameless wallowing in lies which the BNP was always observed to live in and thrive on. That the respective polling agents and even MP candidates of both camps could not observe any irregularities to complain about, such as the use of fraudulence or manipulation by any quarters until the end of the counting, as nothing of the sort was also reported in the print or electronic media, the BNP's allegations simply fell flat and many of its supporters were heard saying that the BNP's claim or blame was for its own sake only and many gave vent to that: “The BNP needed this kick in the teeth.” One rarest thing was that this time hardly anybody returned saying, 'Oh God, my vote had already been cast'.
Perhaps the BNP which came victorious in 2001 through vote rigging and the alleged favouritism held the view that the AL got the landslide by the same deceptive methods it had used in collusion with the then EC men. Since defeated it would not let good sense prevail that the last CA and the current CEC/ECs were/are different sort of men with proven integrity, they were/are totally neutral and without any prejudice, and would never let any left-hand methods go into action like what happened in 2001. Sheikh Hasina then cried down the election as 'subtly rigged' and there were reports of manipulation, irregularities and anomalies as also of results-tampering but all were hushed up.
About the election of 2001 one would have gone bewildered having read a report in a leading daily that unfolded a story, as a tip of the ice-berg, of how the BNP got the thumping majority in 2001, and on that score, we can call the last BNP alliance govt. an utterly unfairly elected govt.
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