Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- The long-awaited Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union (Jucsu) and hall union elections - held for the first time in more than three decades - concluded yesterday evening amid allegations of widespread irregularities, ballot stuffing, and administrative bias.
Voting which officially ended at 5 p.m. stretched into the evening in several halls.
Ballot boxes began reaching the JUCSU Election Commission office only after 5:30 p.m., and reports indicated that voting continued in some centres until nearly 6 p.m.
The tense atmosphere deepened as the Chhatra Dal-backed panel, followed by three members of the Nationalist Teachers' Forum, announced their boycott of the polls, citing "massive irregularities."
The elec...