, Jan. 12 -- Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday said strong arrangements must be put in place to ensure that election fraud never happens again in Bangladesh, as he received the report of the National Election Investigation Commission covering the 2014, 2018 and 2024 elections.

"We had heard about vote rigging. We knew some things. But they shamelessly distorted the entire process, twisted the system, and wrote verdicts on paper according to their own wishes. These findings must be presented to the nation. There needs to be a complete record," he said after receiving the report at the state guesthouse Jamuna.

Prof Yunus said the entire nation had been punished by spending public money to conduct elections that deprived citizens...