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"The upazila elections are held in a more free, fair and credible manner than any other local government elections in the past."
OBAIDUL QUADER
Awami League presidium member
Claiming recreantly held Upazila elections to be fairer than any previous election

"We as the business people cannot be on the sidelines and just look at the government to solve a problem. We have to be part of the solution."
SANJIV MEHTA
Executive vice-president of Unilever South Asia
Said in his keynote speech at the DHL-The Daily Star awards programme at Sonargaon Hotel

"Run and queue up in a line quickly! The journalists are coming."
AN AWAMI LEAGUE ACTIVIST
Instructing Awami League cadres for queuing up in a line for pretending to be regular voters at no-72 Ganganagr Primary School polling centre at Rupganj of Narayanganj

"Russia's relations with Bangladesh, especially in terms of trade, setting up of nuclear and other power plants, are entering the age of renaissance… this is going to happen seriously and for a long term."
NIKOLAEV ALEXANDER
Russian Ambassador in Dhaka
Told while attending the 40th anniversary of Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Dhaka.

"I had to wait for one and a half hours to go to Moghbazar from Satrasta on Sunday afternoon, which is usually a 10-minute trip."
ABDUL AZIZ
A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver
Describing incessant traffic jam in the capital's Moghbazaar area caused by ongoing construction work

"I regret that Bangladesh was not able to join the majority on that important issue."
DAN MOZENA
US Ambassador in Dhaka
Regretting Bangladesh's abstention from joining the large majority regarding the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the Crimea issue