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Amidst uncertainties, Bangladesh readies for polls

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Nov 25, 2008
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After almost 22 months under lockdown, Bangladesh is finally expected to go to the polls on December 29 in a general election to select a new National Parliament, with its political system likely to continue to be handicapped by the presence of the battling dowagers who have stalled political and economic development for well over a decade.

It remains to…

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