Badiul Alam Majumdar, head of the Election System Reform Commission, warned that partisan politics driven by loyalist students and faculty is damaging the education system. “We are paying the price for politics carried out by partisan teachers and students,” he said, urging political parties to demonstrate the goodwill necessary to end such practices. Badiul argued that to stop the emergence of authoritarianism, students and teachers must act primarily in their educational roles — students as students, teachers as teachers. He added that reforms are needed to ensure free, fair, and impartial parliamentary elections, but that implementation ultimately depends on political parties’ willingness to cooperate.