People of Megna and Daudkandi said NO to corruption :: Corrupt Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf defeated in Comilla-1

Major General (Retd.) Shubid Ali Bhuiyan defeated BNP heavy weight candidate and ex-minister, Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf in 2009 Bangladesh parliamentary election by 19,000 votes. It is the biggest achievement for Bangladesh Awami League. This is the first time in 33 years, an AL candidate won this seat.

I campaigned for my father, (Shubid Ali Bhuiyan) for over two weeks. It was great to see how people responded to our campaign message, "durnitir biruddey shangram". Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf tried to buy vote with his corruption money (kalo taka), but people of Megna and Daudkandi rejected "vote buying" scheme of corrupt Dr. Mosharraf.

I reached Dhaka on Dec 18th and left for Daudkandi same day. I didn't notice any BNP campaign activities since Dec 26th. I truely felt that, people of Daudkandi wanted a positive change and the change was in favor of Major General (Retd.) Shubid Ali Bhuiyan. Three days before the election night, we have heard that Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf and his "vote chor" allies where trying to buy votes. They were going door-to-door and giving people 1000 taka/vote. So we started a campaign to resist his "kalo taka" distribution. We setup nightly patrol (My brother and I personally participated), so "kalo taka" distribution is disturbed. This campaign effort caught on at the grass-root level and people were forming committees to stay awake all night to resist "kalo taka" distribution of Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf. This grass-root effort helped our campagin a lot.

This was amazing to see, how people responded to our campaign against corruption. This victory is a victory of the people of Megna and Daudkandi and victory against corruption. Now Shubid Ali Bhuiyan has long list of task to accomplish in next five years to bring "development" back in Daudkandi. I wish him best of luck and I will try my best to help him along the way. I am also very happy that democracy is being restored in Bangladesh. Thank you CTG for arranging this free and fair election.