Bangladesh hits a jackpot of blistering parties when election comes. Whilethe Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) dominate,the alternative reality of the smaller parties cannot be ignored, thoughtheyaremostly lost in the fog of irrelevance after elections. Unless none of thetwolargest partiescommand an absolute majority. And it so happened in both 1991 and 1996. Observers are predicting that it might happen again in 2001.