Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Jatiya Party leader Anisul Islam Mahmud has warned that Bangladesh risks facing a repeat of the "one-sided" 2024 general election if major parties are kept out of the process.

Speaking at a media conference on Saturday at Howlader Tower in Dhaka's Gulshan, the chairman of a faction of the party said some political groups were treating the upcoming election merely as a calculation of who will become leader of the opposition and who will form the government. He accused them of shifting responsibility onto others and unnecessarily questioning the electoral process, reports bdnews24.com.

Cautioning that elections cannot be treated as a "cure-all", Anisul said: "Some think that if an election is held, everything will be so...