Asked whether she plans to vote, Asma said she had learned that she would need to return to her village to cast her ballot. “If domestic postal voting were available, I would definitely vote,” he said. While postal voting has been introduced for overseas Bangladeshis and certain government officials, no alternative voting arrangements exist for millions of internal migrants displaced by employment demands, climate change and rapid urbanisation. Earlier, BRAC’s Migration Programme noted that Bangladesh’s rapidly growing internal migration necessitates urgent reform of voter registration and voting systems. Shahzada M Akram, senior research fellow at Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), told Dhaka Tribune that this was the first time Bangladesh had introduced postal voting to expand electoral participation.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 09, 2026 21:45 UTC