{"id":217882,"date":"2026-04-06T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217882"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:47:59","slug":"ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217882","title":{"rendered":"Ballots, boycotts and burden of legitimacy in Bangladesh&#8217;s defining election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh votes on February 12 amid an election boycott, a constitutional referendum and turnout fears that could reshape its politics and secular identity&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/world\/report-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladesh-s-defining-election-bangladesh-politics-elections-in-bangladesh-bangladesh-next-pm-3200015\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh votes on February 12 amid an election boycott, a constitutional referendum and turnout fears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217882-ballots-boycotts-and-burden-of-legitimacy-in-bangladeshs-defining-election.jpg",426,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}