BD ELECTION 2026: SINK OR SWIM?

Election 2026 in Bangladesh is not just another vote. It’s a crossroads. It is the moment when hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis around the world—and more importantly, people in urban and rural Bangladesh—decide whether Bangladesh will sink or swim in this critical era of nationalist global politics, where every major nation is guarding its identity, borders, and economy with maximum force.Bangladesh did not get infiltrated by Indian hegemony by tanks crossing borders. It happened through sold-out Bangladeshis from within. We can blame India all day, but they didn’t send their army—they convinced thugs and brokers inside Bangladesh through bribery, favors, and dirty deals to push an India-first agenda for more than 50 years. The most concentrated dose of this hegemony came in the last 17 years.

Thankfully, the youth—and I am deeply focused on this part of the population—cut off the biggest head of that hydra and sent her running to a safe zone. But the other heads are still alive, embedded in civil service, law enforcement, and military structures.Dr. Yunus’s interim government will be criticized for many things. But with all my heart, I hope it is not blamed for a sham election. If Election 2026 is staged or unfair, Bangladesh is doomed for a long time—maybe even labeled a failed state.In my book, there are three possible outcomes. These are my views, driven more by my emotional quotient than my limited intelligence quotient—so take them with 1.5 teaspoons of Himalayan salt of your choice. I write to express my thoughts, not to set someone else’s narrative.

BNP Sweeps the Nation

They will call it stability.
They will call it experience.
I call it rewind.Old faces. Old families. Old deals.
Same power brokers, same backstage math, same recycled speeches.
No July spirit. No youth fire. Just a polished return to tired politics.This path feels like going backward—
not just in policy, but in mindset.
A nation that just broke its chains
deciding to wear them again, neatly ironed.

NCP + BJI Form a Government

This is the July Revolution path.Messy. Noisy. Untrained. Brave.
Born from streets, not drawing rooms.
Powered by anger, hope, and unfinished dreams.It will be risky.
Mistakes will be loud.
But at least they will be new mistakes,
not the same old crimes in new packaging.If this works, Bangladesh finally moves forward—
not in circles, not in fear, but in motion.

No landslide. No monopoly.
Everyone forced to behave.Power divided. Ego checked.
Slow laws. Slow reforms. Slow fights.

Not romantic. Not revolutionary.
But maybe safer.
Maybe fewer disasters.
Maybe enough time to heal.

Again, I don’t listen to YouTube pundits who act like they set the narrative for 180 million Bangladeshis. I listen to the youth. With my limited but regular window into them on X, what I hear most is fear about safety—and a quiet hopelessness that their work, the July Revolution, is being taken from them like candy from a child.The old and the “wise” rush in to guide, to control, and to harvest the rewards of blood they didn’t spill—1,400+ lives lost, countless more injured or forgotten.
And it feels like a cruel cycle in this scarred land where many of our parents are buried.We keep losing our sense of right and wrong.

And maybe we will keep losing it—until real leadership rises,
with unconditional loyalty to only one thing: the search for truth.