{"id":1747,"date":"2014-04-23T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-04-25T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T10:57:33","slug":"uk-for-participatory-polls-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-for-participatory-polls-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"UK for participatory polls : Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British High commissioner Robert Gibson has said an active opposition is very important in strengthening democracy. He said they expected a participatory election, however, that didn&#8217;t happen.<br \/>\nHe made the remark after a meeting with Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury at the city corporation office on Monday afternoon.<br \/>\nHe said the British government was working on to help establish democratic accountability in Bangladesh.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is our continuous effort to deepen the relationship between both the countries,\u201d said Gibson.<br \/>\n\u201cNow there needs an active opposition and a free media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-for-participatory-polls-gibson\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British High commissioner Robert Gibson has said an active opposition is very important in strengthening democracy. He said they expected a participatory election, however, that didn&#8217;t happen. He made the remark after a meeting with Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury at the city corporation office on Monday afternoon. He said the British government was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}