In recent months, student union elections across Bangladeshโs major public universities have sent a clear political signal beyond the countryโs borders. conservative student panels secured sweeping victories in contests widely seen as competitive and largely free from direct interference. On campuses long associated with fixed political alignments and managed outcomes, the ballots revealed preferences that had remained hidden for years.
These elections matter not because young voters suddenly changed ideology, but because they took place in one of the few remaining spaces where political choice could still be expressed freely. In Bangladesh, national politics has for years been shaped by regional alignments, diplomatic calculations and security concerns. Only after the collapse of the previous regime did student unions begin to operate under different conditions, where candidates could appear openly, voters could choose freely, and power no longer shielded one side of c
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