By Admin 
The results of the 13th Parliament elections in Bangladesh once again proved how easily small parties can be ‘cleansed’. While BNP won a landslide victory with 216 seats and Jamaat-e-Islami bagged 68 seats, Bangladesh Jatiyo Party (BJP) got only one seat and that too from Bhola-1 seat, where party chairman Andaliv Rahman Partho won on the ‘bullock cart’ symbol by securing 1,04,462 votes. His nearest rival was Jamaat-e-Islami’s Nazrul Islam, who got 73,773 votes.
Small parties swept in Bangladesh elections
This is a big thing for BJP, because it did not go anywhere in the elections. Most of the party’s candidates either lost or were eliminated. Just like in India, many small parties enter the field with ‘bicycle’, ‘elephant’, ‘sword’ or ‘tractor’ symbols, but they have no strength in front of big parties. Even in Bangladesh, BJP had big dreams, but the results came with only one seat. Whereas India’s BJP is completely different. In India, BJP has formed the government in many states along with the Centre. The name of BJP is definitely the same in both the countries, but the circumstances are completely different.
The accounts of Bangladesh Republican Party (BRR) with elephant symbol and Jatiya Party with bicycle symbol could not be opened either. In India, the election symbol of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is elephant, while the symbol of Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party is the bicycle. Similarly, the hand symbolized Bangladesh Muslim League (BML) and the lantern party of the same name also remained clean. In India, hand is the election symbol of Congress, while lantern is the symbol of Lalu Yadav’s RJD.
Vote bank division or pressure from big parties
According to the Election Commission, the results of a total of 297 seats have been declared. BNP won 209, Jamaat-e-Islami 68, National Citizen Party (NCP) 6, Independents 7 and other small parties like Khilafat Majlis (2), Islami Andolan (1), Gano Odhikar Parishad (1), Gano Sanghati Andolan (1) won one or two seats each. But looking at the condition of BJP, it seems that if small parties do not join a big alliance then it is certain that they will be wiped out. Many parties in India too are in a similar situation. The symbol looks good and the candidates look strong, but victory becomes difficult due to division of vote banks or pressure from big parties.
Tariq Rehman can form government by 16th February
Tariq Rehman’s BNP has made preparations to form the government by winning more than two-thirds of the seats. A new government can be formed by 16 February. This election has brought a big change in the politics of Bangladesh, where old parties were voted out and new forces emerged. But there is a lesson for small parties like BJP. Without a strong alliance or local support, even ‘Haathi’ would not have been able to reach anywhere in the elections. In the coming days, the formation of Tariq Rahman’s government will have an impact on Bangladesh-India relations and regional politics.