Letters to the Editor

Gazipur city poll's import

Samiul Raijul, Bangladesh University of Textiles, Dhaka
Restoring caretaker government system is a public demand and it's been again reflected through the ballots in the recent Gazipur poll. Although it was a local election, people cast their votes against the 14-party backed candidate after considering the handling of national issues by the AL government. Gazipur was considered one of the strongholds of AL and its party leaders seemed to have been certain about winning the poll. But they became stupefied when Mannan won the election. Same thing happened in the other four city corporations. I think it made the demand for a nonpartisan caretaker government strident.