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Upazila Polls

Govt wakes up after 5 years

Upazila Parishads, a crucial tier of local government, have been kept sidelined for their entire five year-term. They have been denied their due mandate to function properly as local bodies. This exposes the Awami League-led government's sheer indifference to the decentralisation of state power through a strengthening of local government. A more appalling fact is that the setting up of none of the around 480 upazila parishads was completed during their tenure as elections to some 1,600 posts reserved for women...