We will never have such polls

This has reference to TDS editor Mr. Mahfuz Anam's commentary titled “When will we have such polls again?” published on November 13, 2015. While the people of Myanmar had been deprived of democracy until these elections, we lost our hard-earned democracy not knowing whether we will ever get it back.

Mr. Mahfuz Anam said that after the August 21 grenade attack, Sheikh Hasina could not trust Khaleda Zia. It may be so but what does that have to do with the election to be held under a non-partisan government? Would it be wrong to assume that the Awami League got the feeling that they might lose the election had it been held under a caretaker government? That seems like the probable answer to why people's demands were ignored. But they went ahead anyway and formed a government in a very strange manner. 

Nur Jahan
Chittagong