The government-commissioned white paper on Bangladesh's much-publicised journey towards "Digital Bangladesh" has delivered a sobering verdict. What was once marketed as a transformative national project has now been reveale-- through the task force led by Professor M Niaz Asadullah-- to be mired in systemic governance failures, entrenched corruption, and pervasive political capture. The conclusion drawn by the task force, after reviewing 52 ICT Division projects, should worry anyone concerned with the country's development trajectory. The white paper documents how political influence seeped into the very architecture of the previous Awami League government's digital modernisation drive: at least 12 major projects and 65 components were named after political personalities or directly leveraged for partisan visibility. Flagship connectivity initiatives such as Info-Sarker II and III devolved, in the report's words, into "a textbook case of triple rent seeking." The Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority-- tasked with fostering innovation and industrial diversification-- fared no better. Instead of nurturing a technology ecosystem guided by demand and feasibility, the authority found itself redirected towards political pageantry and patronage. IT parks and training centres were launched not on the basis of market need, infrastructure readiness or the capacity to attract tenants, but on where they could deliver the most partisan mileage.