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  • Abul Kalam Azad

    • Independent Researcher, Auckland, New Zealand
    • New Zealand

  • Charles Crothers

    • Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
    • New Zealand

Abstract

This paper reveals that there has been a continuous political confrontation between two archrival political forces in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. In the course of the confrontation, the country has seemingly been divided into two forces: BAL forces and anti-BAL forces. The democratic development in this country since 1991 is a by-product of this confrontation. In 1991, because of the continued mistrust between the two confronting forces, a unique system of interim government (non-party caretaker government) was produced that kept working as a catalyst of power transfer in a democratic way from one government to another till 2008 election from 1991.

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Azad, A. K., & Crothers, C. (2012). Bangladesh: An Umpired Democracy. Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 3(6), 203-213. https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v3i6.704

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