The hotly contested election in Chittagong, intensely barked about, has ended peacefully. The BNP backed candidate, expected to lose to his Awami League backed opponent, has claimed to be broadly satisfied with the polling process.
Apart from some minor instances of irregularities— that, if verified, would not mount to much–the polling on Thursday was widely seen as fair, and therefore successful. Turnout was lowering than expected and given the hot rhetoric that boiled forth in the last few months, both the turnout and the voting procedure belied the publicly spewed bile.
The BNP has promised to protest and strike against the Awami League government. It had promised to speak out deafeningly loudly against the election commission. Now it seems all that sound and fury signified nothing.
