Since the day of the 11th parliamentary election, the people of Bangladesh have seen the rise of two diametrically opposite discourses: one created by the incumbent government and the Election Commission, saying that the election was free and fair, and the other created by the defeated parties, saying that it was an egregious example of election engineering. Under these circumstances, the sacred duty of the intelligentsia was to create a third narrative exposing the truth and dispelling all the falsehoods. Unfortunately, while the two opposing alliances are waging an