An extreme case scenario -- sudden border clashes with one of the twoneighbors (as happened last April) could jeopardize the coming election inBangladesh. And conceivably, the flash of simmering discontents, latentdistrusts, and the communal antipathy in the border districts, including theChittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), having perimeter with India and Myanmar, mayeasily sway the national poll.