New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- As Bangladesh went to the polls for the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election, it did so under the shadow of a political and economic rupture that had been years in the making. The road to this moment began with the deeply flawed January 7, 2024, general election - an exercise widely condemned as a democratic charade. Official figures for the 2026 voter turnout was placed at 48 percent, a low margin for the revolution that preceded it. However, the Election Commission's own real-time monitoring dashboard briefly recorded the figure at around 32 percent before it was revised upward. Either way, the numbers told the same story: a disengaged populace, a neglected ballot, and an establishment that had lost legitimacy well before ...