There are three incontrovertible facts in Bangladesh’s politics that the regime or its pet media like Dhaka Tribune and Daily Observer dare not broach:
- Never in Bangladesh’s history has a sitting government lost an election since both the law and the culture make it impossible for the Election Commission, Police, or the civil service to do anything not approved by the sitting Prime Minister and the sitting Home Minister.
- None of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s grandchildren live in Bangladesh…rather every last one of them lives in the same Western democracies that this family condemns every hour of the day. In fact one of Mujib’s granddaughters—Tulip Siddique—is a well known pro-Putin Labour Party MP in the British Parliament.
- The only time an actual one-party, one-family state with all executive, judicial, and legislative power concentrated in one person by dint of the Constitution was created in Bangladesh was in 1975 through the 4th Amendment (aka the BKSAL amendment) which made Awami League led by Mujib’s family the only ruling entity and forbid all newspapers and other parties.